Viscera figure with jackal head (Duamutef)

Overview Viscera figure with jackal head (Duamutef) Third Intermediate Period ca. 1000–945 B.C. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130 One of four "viscera" figures found in the abdominal cavity of an anonymous female mummy, this was meant to protect the internal organs. It appears that her viscera were lost at some point, so the embalmers had made up the usual seven packets that should have contained organs (see for example 25.3.156a) with random scraps of material, including a coil of rope, a piece of cowskin, and bits of leather and rag. Jackal-headed, this figure represents Duamutef, usually seen as the embodiment and protector of the stomach.