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CANOPIC JARS.
CANOPIC JARS. Modern term for the four jars in which the soft internal
tissues of the deceased were stored after the mummification of
the body. Canopic chests in which packages of these organs—the
liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines—were placed are known from
the early Old Kingdom, but actual jars with ovoid lids appeared
slightly later. By the Middle Kingdom, the set of jars dedicated to
the four sons of Horus had evolved. The jars were all originally human-
headed, but by the New Kingdom they bore separate heads—
human, baboon, jackal, and hawk. From Dynasty 21 onward, the internal
organs were wrapped in packages and placed in the body, but
the funerary equipment continued to include dummy canopic jars.
The use of actual jars was revived in Dynasty 26. The term canopic
derives from confusion with Canopus, a deity depicted as a humanheaded
jar during the Graeco-Roman Period
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