Canopic pots.
Canopic vessels are 4 pots made of pottery, limestone, or alabaster, in which the mummified intestines of the deceased are placed. After it is extracted from the deceased before it is embalmed.
At first, these pots did not form any particular shapes. Then there were pots with a lid in the form of a human head, and then these vessels had lids in different shapes for four pots. Like the following: -
_ (1) Its cover was in the shape of a human being called [Misti] and it was kept in it [the liver] of the deceased after it was embalmed.
_ (2) Its cover is in the shape of a monkey It was called [Haby] and it was kept in it [the lungs] of the deceased after it was embalmed.
_ (3) Its cover was in the shape of a falcon. It was called [Qebh Snouf] and it was kept in it [the intestines] of the deceased after it was embalmed.
_ (4) He covered it in the shape of a son of Awi. fox. And it was called [Daamotv] and it was kept with it [the stomach] of the deceased after it had been embalmed.
The purpose was to extract the entrails from the mummy of the deceased during the embalming process. It is not decomposed inside the mummy, so these viscera were mummified outside the body and placed in these vessels and then placed next to the deceased inside the tomb.
Canopic jars were named this name due to their discovery in the city of Canopus, near Alexandria, and named after the city
# The ancient Egyptians