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. Although the first proven canopic burials date from the Fourth Dynasty reign of Sneferu, there is evidence to suggest that there were canopic installations at Saqqara dating from the Second Dynasty.[1]
^Dodson, Aidan, "Canopic Jars and Chests", in Redford, Donald B. (ed) (2001). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, vol. II, Oxford University Press. pp. 231–235
late Fourth Dynasty, the jars were placed within canopicchests. Although the first proven canopic burials date from the Fourth Dynasty reign of Sneferu...
deceased or the gods, and/or burial spells. Early canopic jars were placed inside a canopicchest and buried in tombs together with the sarcophagus of...
with the canopic jars was established in the First Intermediate Period, and afterward they became ubiquitous in the decoration of canopicchests, coffins...
Swelin, Nabil; Dodson, Aidan (1998). "On the Pyramid of Ameny-Qemau and its Canopic Equipment" (PDF). Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts...
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...
facing towards the west. Behind it was the large canopic shrine containing the king's canopicchest and jars. During the work in the burial chamber, the...
pyramid Canopic jar – vessel containing internal body organs removed during mummification Canopicchest – the common chest contained the four Canopic jars...
the Kings, where fragments of her funerary equipment – including a canopicchest – were found. Floodwater washed some of these into KV47, the adjacent...
carrying the Eye of Horus, from the treasury The canopic shrine from the treasury The canopicchest from the treasury, with three of the four stoppers...
First he remarks that Sobekemsaf's canopicchest is slightly larger—4.1 cm longer and 3.4 cm higher—than the canopicchests belonging to the latter two kings...
tomb of Shoshenq I. The sole funerary object linked to Shoshenq I is a canopicchest of unknown provenance that was donated to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin...
the same scale as the figures on Tutankhamun's canopic shrine. Fragments of the calcite canopicchest reveal winged goddesses stood astride each corner...
the canopicchest of Hatshepsut. Her sarcophagus was found at the far end of the chamber with its lid lying on the floor at the head end; her canopic chest...
animal, possibly a bull. Another pit in the floor likely contained the canopicchest, its lid would have been one of the pavement slabs. There are two small...
open doorway to a fourth room, dubbed the treasury. It contained the canopicchest that housed Tutankhamun's embalmed organs. Carter had the entrance to...
canopic jars bearing the cartouches of a Hedjkheperre Shoshenq. Rohl had pointed out that the Staatliche Museum in Berlin possessed a canopicchest for...
MISR Project. The finds in the tomb include hundreds of fragments of a canopicchest and fragments of lids with a human head for covering the potholes that...
molded, the brain remained in the skull and its innards were found in a canopicchest in the tomb. Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families...
that the chest wall of the king was intact, still wearing a beaded collar with falcon-headed terminals. The absence of both the collar and chest wall was...
Kingdom coffins. They were also sometimes written on tomb walls, stelae, canopicchests, papyri and mummy masks. Due to the limited writing surfaces of some...
Itakayt's name. Her burial chamber contained a sarcophagus, a canopicchest and two canopic jars. Itakayt is perhaps also known from a papyrus fragment...
with a granite sarcophagus on the western side, and a niche for the canopicchest on the southern one. The granite walls of the burial chamber were whiten...
intestines.[25] Sometimes the four canopic jars were placed into a canopicchest and buried with the mummified body. A canopicchest resembled a "miniature coffin"...
now housed in the Cairo Museum along with a matching yellow quartzite canopicchest. A second sarcophagus was found lying on its side with its almost undamaged...
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