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Among the ancient Egyptians, canopic jars were covered funerary vases, normally composed of clay, intended to keep the viscera of mummified corpses. All the viscera were not kept in a single canopic jar, but rather each organ in its own. Map of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Lower Nile Valley, between the First Cataract and the mouths of the Nile Delta, from circa 3300 BC until the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC. As a civilization based...
Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A funeral is a ceremony marking a persons death. ...
In anatomy, the viscera are the internal organs of an animal, in particular the internal organs of the head, thorax and abdomen. ...
Two different meanings: The process of preparing a dead body for preservation; see: Mummy The practice of (sexually) restraining a living body. ...
In addition to hieroglyphs, figures of gods was often painted on the jars. These were the four sons of Horus, the guardians of the organs: A hieroglyph is one part of an ideographic writing system that is often found carved in stone. ...
Hapis canopic jar The Four sons of Horus were a group four gods in Egyptian mythology, said to be the sons of Horus in his early form, who were said to be the with the canopic jars of mummified bodies. ...
Horus is an ancient god of Egyptian mythology, whose cult survived so long that he evolved dramatically over time and gained many names. ...
- Imset (depicted as a human) was responsible for the liver;
- Hapi (a baboon) for the lungs;
- Duamutef (a jackal) for the stomach;
- Kebechsenef (a falcon) for the viscera of the lower body.
Alternatively, the jars themselves or their lids were made in the shape of the gods. In Egyptian mythology, Imset (also transliterated Imsety, Amset, Amsety, Mesti, and Mesta) was a funerary deity, one of the four sons of Horus, who were associated with the canopic jars, specifically the one which contained the liver. ...
Hapi was one of the sons of Horus depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the Underworld. ...
In Egyptian mythology, Duamutef (also known as Tuamutef) was one of the Four sons of Horus and a funerary god who protected the stomach and large intestines of mummified corpses, kept in a canopic jar. ...
In Egyptian mythology, Kebechsenef is a funerary god, associated with falcons and canopic jars (specifically: the jar which contained the viscera of the lower body). ...
The Egyptians considered the heart to be the seat of the soul, so it was the only organ not removed from the body. The brain was not preserved (it was held responsible for producing mucus), but was liquefied and completely drained from the corpse through the nostrils.
Sometimes the covers of the jars were modelled after (or painted to resemble) the head of Anubis, the embalming god. These vases have an elongated form, and surviving examples of them can be seen in some museums. The canopic jars were buried in tombs together with the sarcophagus of the deceased, in order to preserve the integrity of the entire body after death (the viscera were extracted to prevent the putrefaction of the corpse). Anubis, is the Greek name for the ancient god in Egyptian mythology whose hieroglyphic is more accurately spelt Anpu (also Anup, Anupu, Wip, Ienpw, Inepu, Yinepu, or Inpw). ...
A tomb is a small building (or vault) for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. ...
Stone sarcophagus of Pharaoh Merenptah A sarcophagus is a stone container for a coffin or body. ...
By extension, due to the similarity of their form, some Etruscan cinerary urns were also called canopic jars, made of clay or bronze, often put on the replica of a throne into the tombs, and with a male or female head modelled on them, representing the deceased's face with the handles having the form of arms. The Etruscan civilization existed in Etruria and the Po valley in the northern part of what is now Italy, prior to the formation of the Roman Republic. ...
The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery, Bath, England. ...
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