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RARE EGYPTIAN HUGE BLACK BAZALT FULL SET OFCANOPIC JARS
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RARE EGYPTIAN HUGE BLACK BAZALT FULL SET OFCANOPIC JARS
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EGYPTIAN HISTORY WE ARE owners of an extremely rare Egyptian antiques and our job is to offer clients excellent items witch they deserve. The items that we choose and selected with care from many places and original sources. We like to present you a best listing and we also guarantee unique purchases and best buys w we start our clients satisfaction. In addition we promise fast and reliable shipments that delivers you purchases safely in the expected condition .We are dedicated to serve our customers with honesty and integrity in order to grant customers a successful and unforgettable deal because we aim on maintaining long term relation ships with our clients. HISTORY Among the ancient Egyptians, canopic jars were covered funerary vases, intended to keep the viscera of mummified corpses. Jars were made from various materials, including alabaster, limestone, pottery, wood, basalt, bronze. All the viscera were not kept in a single Canopic jar, but rather each organ in its own. In addition to hieroglyphics, figures of gods were often hand painted on the jars. These were the Four sons of Horus, the guardians of the organs [1] . Imsety (man-headed): liver Hapi (baboon-headed): lungs Duamutef (jackal-headed): stomach Qebehsenuef (falcon-headed): intestines Alternatively, the jars themselves, or the jar lids, were made in the shape of the representative god. The Egyptians considered the heart to be the seat of the soul, so it was the only organ not removed from the body. The brain was not preserved (it was held to be only responsible for producing mucus), but instead was liquefied and completely drained from the corpse through the nostrils. Sometimes the covers of the jars were modelled after (or painted to resemble) the head of Anubis, the god of embalming. These vases have an elongated form, and surviving examples of them can be seen in museums. The canopic jars were buried in tombs together with the sarcophagus of the deceased, in order to preserve the integrity of the entire body after death (the viscera were extracted to prevent the putrefaction of the corpse). It was also done because it was believed the dead person would need their organs for the afterlife. By extension, due to the similarity of their form, some Etruscan cinerary urns were also called canopic jars, made of clay or bronze, often put on the replica of a throne into the tombs, and with a male or female head modelled on them, representing the deceased's face with the handles having the form of arms. The name "canopic jar" Canopus was an ancient Egyptian coastal town in the Nile Delta. Its site is in the eastern outskirts of modern-day Alexandria , around 25 kilometers from the centre of that city. The god Osiris was worshipped at Canopus under the form of a vase with a human head. Through an old misunderstanding, the name "canopic jar" came to be applied by early Egyptologists to any vase with a human or animal head. MEASURMENTS SOURCE : UPPER EGYPT MATERIAL : BAZALT LENGHT :15.5 cm (6 INCH) SURWENDING :22.6 cm (9.5 INCH) CULTURE : PHARAONIC TYPE : CANOPIC JARS CONDITION : SEE PHOTOES TERMS & CONDITION An e-mail will be sent to the winning bidder with 24 hours after the auction end. Please, pay through the link included either pay pal or credit cards. If you did not receive the link in 24 hours Please e-mail us to send the link required. Be sure to add me to your favorites list. PAYMENTS The payments must be made within 5 days. The winner will receive the item in maximum 20 business days after payment. If you have anther way to send money.please contact us first. AUCTION POLICY Please save all of the item photos to your pc because ebay system delete the photos 3 days after the auction closes. We leave feed back after we receive your feed back. If you have any problem with any of your ...
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