10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANOPIC URN»
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Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies
"Canopic" urn representing female figure with earrings. Chiusi. Terracotta.
Seventh century B.C. (Soprin- tendenza alle Antichita-Firenze.) urn, a specialty of
Chiusi, where cremation always continued to be practiced (fig. IV-46). Nineteenth
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The Museum has two examples of this kind ofimpasto ash container, called a
canopic urn. Canopic is a misnomer. It was applied to these urns because they
bear a superficial resemblance to Egyptian canopic urns, which were used to
contain ...
Otto Brendel, Francesca R. Serra Ridgway, 1995
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Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum has two examples of this kind ofimpasto ash container, called a
canopic urn. Canopic is a misnomer. It was applied to these urns because they
bear a superficial resemblance to Egyptian canopic urns, which were used to
contain ...
Richard Daniel De Puma, 2013
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Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts, Or, Practical ...
In the Elgin Room of the British Museum there is an enormous embossed bronze
Attic vessel in the purest canopic urn form that is distinguished by its very simple
decoration. It is half-hidden in a chest and visible only from above.
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Machine Translation and the Lexicon: Third International ...
... must be interpreted as (Canopic jar) or (Canopic urn) or (Canopic vase),
whereas the entry Junggar Pendi, Dzungaria, or Zungaria, which has the same
structure, must be interpreted as (Junggar Pendi) or (Dzungaria) or (Zungaria).
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Chase of the Mummies: An Ethan Sparks Adventure
I looked up the word “canopic” and found “canopic urn,” a jar used in ancient
Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead. Wow, I
thought, that's awesome! But what is a “head stopper”? I googled Egyptian head
...
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Roman Sarcophagi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
S. Etruscan canopic urn. Seventh or sixth century BC. MMA, Purchase, 96.9.50 in
the royal tombs of Sidon. The Metropolitan possesses three Hellenized examples
of this form that have the heads carved in the Greek classical style (acc. nos.
Anna Marguerite McCann, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1978
He sawed down the length of the dead man's chest cutting through bone and all-
but-dry viscera, then carefully wiped the bloody blade and his hands on the edge
of the canopic urn, meticulously collecting every drop. He set the knife down ...
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Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History
Clearly, in using anthropomorphized urns, the principal intention was to revitalize
the deceased by restoring to the body, destroyed on the funeral pyre, an ash
container in the form of an enduring image; and by placing the Canopic urn on a
...
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Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the ...
... jar was designed to look like a canopic urn. Room Four: The gray marble
statue of a reclining figure was meant to be a personification of the Nile River. •
Against the wall is a curious statue of Anubis, the jackal headed god of the
Egyptians.
