16+ Images Of Egyptian Canopic Jars. The ancient egyptians had a strong religious belief that when a person died they would return to an 'afterlife' that was almost the same as the life they had when they canopic jars were created to contain all of the organs, so that upon entering the afterlife, the person would be complete. Canopic is a wrongly given name, canopic jars, but the correct name is viscera jars because the ancient egyptians used to mummify the deceased and take out the organs during this process so they would mummify these organs and put them in jars that were called viscera or canopic jars.
570 x 380 jpeg 37 кб. Her viscera were stored in a travertine (egyptian alabaster). The ancient egyptians had a strong religious belief that when a person died they would return to an 'afterlife' that was almost the same as the life they had when they canopic jars were created to contain all of the organs, so that upon entering the afterlife, the person would be complete.
This small set of four canopic jars includes horus, sekhmet, human, and anubis.
Their stoppers were made in the likeness of horus's. I am happy to present you my latest personal project, an egyptian canopic jar. Each jar represented one of the four sons of the egyptian god horus, so that they could watch over you. This small set of four canopic jars includes horus, sekhmet, human, and anubis.