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.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Did You Know About Canopic Jars?
Did you know about Canopic Jars?
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.
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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