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Canopic jar

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Canopic jar, urn, vase [kəˈnəʊpɪk]
n
(Social Science / Archaeology) (in ancient Egypt) one of four containers with tops in the form of animal heads of the gods, for holding the entrails of a mummy
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Noun1.Canopic jar - a jar used in ancient Egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed bodycanopic jar - a jar used in ancient Egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed body
canopic vase
jar - a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles
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There will also be pots, statues and jewellery on display, as well as a mummified hawk and canopic jars where the Egyptians put internal organs once they had removed them from a dead person during the mummification process.
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The archeologists also found three wooden canopic jars, which the ancient Egyptians used to store the entrails of their mummified dead, and four ushabti boxes containing wooden figurines.
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