This coffin of a woman from the Ptolemaic period still contains her mummy. She is shown on the lid wearing the long tripartite wig. The coffin is decorated on the sides with two long serpents.
Anubis, the black jackal, was the animal that personified the deity who was believed to protect the cemetery, and thus became the patron deity of mummification. On this cartonnage piece, the jackal-headed god comes, carrying the disk of the moon, and wishing the deceased long life. He wears a gilded collar, an unusual short kilt with a long tail hanging from the front and sandals.
A wooden board with the remains of a colored portrait of a woman, that may be dated to the period between the middle of the second century and the beginning of the fourth century AD.
The canopic case was used to contain the organs of Sennedjem. It depicts Sennedjem in the form of the god of the dead, Osiris, with his arms crossed on his chest, wearing a long wig.
This canopic chest, which was used to store the jars that contained the embalmed internal organs, belonged to Queen Hatshepsut. Her cartouche "Maat-Ka-Re" is written on it.
The beautiful box, richly ornamented on its four sides, belongs to a lady named Isis. It once stored her canopic vases, which were used to contain the organs of the deceased.
The interior of the alabaster canopic chest of King Tutankhamun was divided into four compartments, each holding a miniature gold coffin containing the viscera of the king, wrapped in bandages.
The canopic jar of Djehuty-Nakht, used to store embalmed internal organs, is finely polished and has a human-headed lid. The name of Duamutef is written between the two human arms incised on the surface of the jar.
One of the four canopic jars which had contained the internal organs extracted during the embalming process. The covers bear the head of a jackal or "Duamutef."
The jar has four vertical columns of hieroglyphs bearing the name and the title of the owner who is Set-ari-ben daughter of Hana.
The lid of this large, hollow, alabaster canopic jar is shaped like a falcon-head. Several columns of hieroglyphic text are carved on the front of the jar.
This canopic jar, which was used to store embalmed internal organs, has a lid shaped like the head of a man. The man is portrayed wearing a long wig that falls to his shoulders and a long divine beard.
A canopic jar formed of two parts; the body and the lid. The lid bears the head of a king wearing the Egyptian headdress known as Nemes. The Canopic jars are the four funerary jars, in which the internal organs of the deceased are preserved. The organs were removed during the mummification process and preserved.
