WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
The jars had lids or stoppers that were shaped as the head of one of the minor funerary deities known as the Four Sons of Horus. The baboon-headed Hapy guarded the lungs. The human-headed Imsety was the guardian of the liver. Jackal-headed Duamutef guarded the stomach and upper intestines and falcon-headed Qebehsenuef guarded the lower intestines.
Canopic jars of the Old Kingdom (about 2686-2181 BC) are almost never inscribed, and have a plain lid. In the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC), canopic jars are often inscribed, and the lids are often human headed.
Canopic jars of the Old Kingdom (about 2686-2181 BC) are almost never inscribed, and have a plain lid. In the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC), canopic jars are often inscribed, and the lids are often human headed.
WHAT IS IT MADE OUT OF?
The jars were made of several materials such as limestone, calicite or alabaster. The finishing touch would be the stoppers being shaped like human heads, and later as Jackal, Baboon and Falcon heads.
WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
Canopic Jars were used by the ancient Egyptian during the rituals of mummification processes. These were used as containers in which to hold the internal organs of the deceased that was going to be mummified.
WHAT DOES IT REPRESENT?
The Canopic jars represent the strong believe the Ancient Egyptians had in burial, and afterlife procedures. There jars shows how they would individually preserve each organ in a specific jar to help the mummy in the afterlife. It also highlight s the gods which Ancient Egyptians had stronger beliefs over and who they thought would always protect them in the afterlife and in the death procedures.The wooden lids of these jars represent the Sons of Horus, four minor gods who protected the organs that they contained.