From the Old Kingdom (about 2686-2181 BC) the canopic jars or the organs were placed into a canopic box (oldest secure example: the chest in the tomb of the queen's mother Hetepheres). These boxes are ...

These jars were typically made of alabaster, pottery or sometimes glass and were often placed in a canopic chest within the tomb alongside the mummified body. Preliminary research into Edi's ...

Fragment of a box (perhaps a canopic chest). Decorated with a winged figure and two rows of hieroglyohic text. Third Intermediate Period, phaps from Dynasty 22. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Cracked surface ...