Viscera figure with human head (Imsety)

Unknown

ca. 1000–945 B.C. · Mud, wax · Egyptian Art

A set of four roughly-made figures (25.3.156a–d) were found inside the mummy of Nesitaset. Each figure represents one of the Four Sons of Horus, the deities who both embodied and protected the internal organs. Nesitaset's organs had been removed, divided into seven packages, dessicated, wrapped in linen, and placed back in the body. This figure represents the human-headed Imsety, usually seen as the guardian of the liver. This one of two human-headed figures found in Nesitaset's mummy; normally she should have had a falcon-headed figure representing Qebehsenuef, guardian of the intestines.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1000–945 B.C.

Medium

Mud, wax

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1925