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canopic jar

In ancient Egyptian funerary ritual, a covered vessel of wood, stone, pottery, or faience containing the embalmed viscera removed from a body during mummification. First used during the Old Kingdom (c. 2575–c. 2130 BC), the jars became more elaborate during the Middle Kingdom (c. 1938–c. 1600 BC), when their lids were decorated with sculpted human heads (probably representations of the deceased). From the 19th dynasty until the end of the New Kingdom (1539–1075 BC), the heads represented the four sons of Horus. During the 20th dynasty (1190–1075 BC), the practice began of returning the viscera to the body, and the art of canopic jars declined.
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There will also be pots, statues and jewellery on display, as well as a mummified hawk and canopic jars where the Egyptians put internal organs once they had removed them from a dead person during the mummification process.
Head and entrails to feature at exhibition by Birmingham Mail (England)
The archeologists also found three wooden canopic jars, which the ancient Egyptians used to store the entrails of their mummified dead, and four ushabti boxes containing wooden figurines.
Empty coffins found in looted Egypt tomb by Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
Portraits and jewelry of the rich, mummies of dogs, canopic jars that held major body organs and coffins of the famous are among the more than 100 objects revealing the civilization's obsession with death.
Artbuzz by Ormond, Mark / Sarasota Magazine
 
 
 
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