Burial jars
Canoptic Jar and Cover of Lady Senebtisi,ca.1938-1759 BCE,limestone,pigment
Priests separately mummified the stomach,liver,lungs,and intestines,to be placed in jars.in the most expensive method of mummification described by Herodotus.The practice of removing the organs and packing them separately declined in the Middle Kingdom and later,yet Egyptians still included canopic jars in burials.And while the covers of Middle Kingdom canopic jars all have human heads,by the New Kingdom the jars of the royal scribe of Rameses all,named Tjuli,had human,baboon,jackal,and falcon heads.
Burial jars
Canoptic Jar and Cover of Lady Senebtisi,ca.1938-1759 BCE,limestone,pigment
Priests separately mummified the stomach,liver,lungs,and intestines,to be placed in jars.in the most expensive method of mummification described by Herodotus.The practice of removing the organs and packing them separately declined in the Middle Kingdom and later,yet Egyptians still included canopic jars in burials.And while the covers of Middle Kingdom canopic jars all have human heads,by the New Kingdom the jars of the royal scribe of Rameses all,named Tjuli,had human,baboon,jackal,and falcon heads.