Outdoors in California, Kiebert's China Rocks, their pierced, twisted and tormented columns share an agony with her
canopic Urns in Maryland.
Eight Spanish coal miners are staging a protest underground as part of nationwide strike action by unions opposed to cuts in government subsidies to the sector (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano) USA A
canopic coffinette is displayed during a preview of a King Tut exhibit at Seattle Center.
My students begin to discover containing structures everywhere, even the
canopic jars for the organs.
Central to the displays are the nested coffins and mummy of Djeddjehutyiuefankh; funerary models; and
canopic jars, shown alongside a variety of co(fin lids.
Foehn gusts carry Sahara sand to the traffic-choked streets of Egypt as they did when priests and potentates first walked Alexandria's
Canopic Way.
The mouth of the
Canopic branch of the Nile was one of the two main arteries of communications through which Egypt encountered various peoples of the Mediterranean.
There are also some beautifully carved
canopic jars, made to house the organs removed during mummification.
The organs were then placed in vessels called
canopic jars.
Objects included staves headrests stone vessels
canopic jars and wooden models which "were masterworks of Egyptian art" writes Doxey curator of Ancient Egyptian Nubian and Near Eastern Art.
But the first brand-new Alexandria (that is, after the Alexandroupolis in northern Greece, which he renamed rather than founded in 340 BC) was established not in Europe, nor in Asia, but in Africa, in the Nile delta, at that vast river's
Canopic outlet into the Mediterranean.
Meni II fears in the end that his heart is "heavy as a
CanopicThere 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.