answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

They were used during the mumification process to store and preserve the internal organs of the deceased organ is guarded by a funeral God accompanied by a goddess

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What was an Egyptian Canopic Jar used for?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

What is an Egyptian canopic jar?

they were used to preserve organs during the mummification process in ancient egypt


What is imsety?

imsety is an Egyptian god who gards the liver's canopic jar


What Egyptian god guarded the livers canopic jar?

The god called Imsety guarded the livers canopic jars.


This god guarded the livers canopic jar?

Imesty was the Ancient Egyptian god who guarded the liver's canopic jars.


What is the name of the god who guarded the liver's canopic jar?

Imsety was the Egyptian god charged with guarding the liver canopic jar. He was the human headed of the falcon sky and sun god Horus.


What is a canopic jar?

A canopic jar was used by the Ancient Egyptians to store the viscera of a body for the afterlife. These were carved from limestone or made of pottery.


Livers canopic jar?

Imsety, human-headed protected the canopic jar of the liver.


What did the baboon canopic jar hold?

The baboon canopic jar held the lungs of the mummy.


Jar that held the Embald organs?

Canopic jar.


Canopic jars each hold?

Canopic jars are just pottery jars. Used for various purposes. Some civilisations used jars to hold the organs of embalmed prominent citizens. In ancient Egypt, mummies were buried with four canopic jars, one for each of Horus's sons, and each containing a different internal organ. The jar representing Imsety had a human head and contained the liver.


What do you call the jars used in embalming?

They were called Canopic Jars~The god Duamutef guarded the stomachThe god Imsety guarded the liverThe god Hapi guarded the lungsThe god Qebehsenuef guarded the intestinesThe heart wasn't put in a Canopic Jar as it was to be weighed in order to go into the afterlife.


What was the name of the jars that held the embaled organs?

The jar that a mummy's organs would be placed into was a jar called a canopic jar. It was made of stone or clay.