These are the jars used in Ancient Egypt for storing the visceral tissues of a body which was mummified. The jars were made of different materials including limestone, pottery, wood, bronze and even alabaster. Each of the jars had a different design to the lid to indicate just which organ it contained. The liver was placed in the man-headed jar, the lungs were placed in the baboon-headed jar, the stomach was put into the jackal-headed jar, and the intestines in the falcon-headed jar. Each of these four heads represented a different son of Horus.
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