3740398 Canopic Jar with a Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman\'s Head, c.1349??6 B.C. (travertine, blue glass, obsidian) by Egyptian 18th Dynasty (c.1567-1320 BC); height: 53.2 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: New Kingdom, Amarna Period, 18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Tomb KV 55, Davis/Ayrton excavations, 1907 The head is a royal woman of Amarna in a Nubian wig, variously idenitifed as Akhenaten\'s mother Queen Tiye, his wives Queen Nefertiti and Kiya and his daughter Princess Merytaten 4 canopic jars for human organs needed in the afterlife: stomach, intestines, lungs and liver. Egyptians believed the heart to be the seat of the soul so it was left inside the body. ); Egyptian, out of copyright.