Talk:Canopic jar

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Why "Canopic" jars?[edit]

Why are these vessels called "Canopic"? Canopus was a locality in the Nile River Delta, at one of the Nile branches. How did these vessels come to carry its name? logologist 07:13, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting question (i.e., one I'd never stopped to think about). Shaw & Nicholson's "Dictionary of Anc. Egypt" says Osiris was worshipped at Canopus in the form of a human-headed jar, and that by extension/confusion, early Egyptologists used 'canopic' for any similar stoppered jar. –Hajor 12:40, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean:[edit]

It's in the final paragraph of the article.

"The canopic jars hold for organs as the lungs a stuff the heart was not one of the organs."

I think this should either be deleted or cleaned up for clear understanding. --68.75.183.81 17:24, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I read in an article that they were named by the early explorers who discovered them because of a misunderstanding. Perhaps you should read this. http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/canopic.htm

The pic of a "canopic jar"[edit]

There are lots, and lots of canopic jars on our planet, and a percentage are Not Egyptian. Any good pictures availabel?....--Michael,inHotYUMA,AzSonoran-Desert,,Mmcannis 13:05, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I found a picture and added it to the article. Canadiana 19:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hudhud?[edit]

What is "hudhud"? The last line of the Decline section: "These were often left empty or filled with hudhud and straw." There are plenty of results on Google, but they seem to refer to "an oral epic recited over a period of many days by the Ifugao people of the Philippines", which isn't something I can imagine being placed in a jar.68.246.205.34 (talk) 15:58, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

what you put in a canopic jar[edit]

you put in the lungs,stomach,liver and the intestiens. there is four canopic jars,the falcon,jackal, humum and the baboon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.193.40.240 (talk) 16:18, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Needs to be better integrated[edit]

Probably due to piecemeal contributions over time that never got integrated together, the article mentions 3 times within the first 7 paragraphs that the faces on the jars represent the four sons of Horus. This whole first section needs to be smoothed out and better integrated to eliminate some of this repetition. - Mark Dixon (talk) 13:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It also makes several opposing statements about whether or not canopic jars have images of the gods on them, or their lids are in the shape of the gods' heads. Somebody who knows what they're talking about, please fix this. 76.27.211.75 (talk) 04:11, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I've dealt with some of the above, the last two paragraphs still need work and referencing, as does Canopic chest which lacks any inline citations which articles should have. dougweller (talk) 22:25, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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