ANCIENT ANTIQUE Egyptian faience Canopic Jar Imsety (300-1500 BC)

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Seller: akhenaten-dubi ✉️ (274) 0%, Location: luxor, EG, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 232675247794 ANCIENT ANTIQUE Egyptian faience Canopic Jar Imsety (300-1500 BC). Coming from Luxor city  The Size :    11 cm x 5 cm The weight :   305 grm Material :   glazed faience or (glazed porcelain) The canopic jars were four in number, each for the safekeeping of particular human organs: the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver, all of which, it was believed, would be needed in the afterlife. There was no jar for the heart: the Egyptians believed it to be the seat of the soul, and so it was left inside the body.

Many Old Kingdom canopic jars were found totally empty and damaged, even in undisturbed tomb context. Therefore it seems that they were never used as container for entrails. Instead it seems that they were part of burial rituals and were placed after these rituals empty into the burial.

The design of canopic jars changed over time. The oldest date from the Eleventh  or the Twelfth dynasty , and are made of stone or wood. The last jars date from the New Kingdom . In the Old Kingdom  the jars had plain lids, though by the First Intermediate Period  jars with human heads (assumed to represent the dead) began to appear. Sometimes the covers of the jars were modeled after (or painted to resemble) the head of Anubis , the god of death and embalming. By the late Eighteenth dynasty  canopic jars had come to feature the four sons of Horus .Many sets of jars survive from this period, in alabaster, aragonite, calcareous stone, and blue or green glazed porcelain. The sons of Horus were also the gods of the cardinal compass points. Each god was responsible for protecting a particular organ, and was himself protected by a companion goddess. They were

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  • Material: glazed faience
  • Cultural Origin: Egyptian

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