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  2. Canopic jar - Wikipedia

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    Canopic jars are containers that were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process, to store and preserve the viscera of their soul for the afterlife. The earliest and most common versions were made from stone, but later styles were carved from wood. [ 1 ]

  3. Four sons of Horus - Wikipedia

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    The canopic jars were given lids that represented the heads of the sons of Horus. Although they were originally portrayed as humans, in the latter part of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 BC), they took on their most distinctive iconography, in which Imsety is portrayed as a human, Hapy as a baboon, Duamutef as a jackal, and Qebehsenuef as a falcon.

  4. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes the four canopic jars were placed into a canopic chest and buried with the mummified body. A canopic chest resembled a "miniature coffin" and was intricately painted. The Ancient Egyptians believed that by burying their organs with the deceased, they may rejoin in the afterlife.

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    Any internal organs removed during the process were typically placed in canopic jars, each featuring an iconographic lid with one of the four sons of the Egyptian god Horus to protect each organ ...

  6. Canopic chest - Wikipedia

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    Canopic chests are cases used by ancient Egyptians to contain the internal organs removed during the process of mummification. Once canopic jars began to be used in the late Fourth Dynasty , the jars were placed within canopic chests.

  7. Tomb of Hetepheres I - Wikipedia

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    The sarcophagus and the canopic jar were placed incorrectly: The sarcophagus had been placed on the east side instead of the usual west side and the canopic jar should have been placed to the south of the sarcophagus. King Snofru, whose wife is generally believed, to be Hetepheres. The queens were usually buried next to their husband's pyramid.

  8. A market mystery: Why do capers come in such tiny jars? - AOL

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    “You need the jar so it’ll fit in the in the spice rack,” he says. “But you also couldn’t fill that jar, or it would be $200.” If you’re only using a few capers a year, a tiny jar ...

  9. Book of the Dead of Qenna - Wikipedia

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    Isis speaks in Spell 151, however. She is the guardian of Imseti, who in turn guards the canopic jar containing the liver. As well Isis is a member of the Heliopolitan cosmology's Ennead, a system of gods often extended to include Horus. [17] Book of the Dead Spell 30A appears to connect the heart with afterlife judgments, imploring: