Thursday, November 18, 2010

Extreme Canopic Jars Make-Over

The 1st signs of canopic jars were in Ancient Egypt during the 4th dynasty in the tomb of queen Meresankh III at Giza, from the reign of Menkaure. (NOTE: I don't know how to pronounce the names either, so stop asking!) during the time of chaos, which sounds very pleasant, in Egyptian history was when the lids of canopic jars started to take shape of a human head instead of a flat or domed shape. Not only had the Egyptians redone the toppers, but also they started to have a vast amount of inscription carved into the canopic jars! Previously, the writing on the jars had been bland with only the name of the deceased on it, now the jars fallowed the design of contemporary coffins, with strings of text scrambling around the canvas. At the end of the Middle Kingdom, a classic pattern for canopic jars were found! The canopic jars were now complete, the containers now had extensive writing and were now finished off quite well with, sometimes, an explosion of color. The Egyptians were surely honored to have made this extravagant achievement! I'm also convinced that the mummies whom had own their organs placed in such a beautiful vase were so grateful that they spewed tears of joy, disregarding that they were dead. Though some mummies didn't cry happy tears, but wallowed in frustration when they were stuck with the rigid, unshapely, canopic jars in the later years. It was odd, the canopic jars started out plain, went to sparkly like that certain vampire heart-throb, back to their atrocious form, then right up to the gorgeous once more! Either the canopic jars kept hitting puberty or artistic talent skipped a generation.

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