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Canopic jar of Neb

Canopic jar with hollowed-out interior and has been used. Inscribed for Neb,overseer of the cattle of Onuris. The text is that for Nephthys and Hapi and the jar was baboon-headed and theoretically contained the mummified lungs.

Canopic jar with hollowed-out interior and has been used. Inscribed for Neb,overseer of the cattle of Onuris. The text is that for Nephthys and Hapi and the jar was baboon-headed and theoretically contained the mummified lungs.

Object Canopic jar of Neb
Provenance Abydos, Egypt
Site Cemetery D, North Section
Period Dynasty XVIII, Hatshepsut;
Material Alabaster(calcite)
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1900.54:23
Copyrights Bolton Council