Image: Canopic jar of Lady Senebtisi. jpg | Hapi -( lung ) Canopic jar of " Lady Senebtisi " God Hapi is spelled in Egyptian language hieroglyphs: " h-p -( det .– Rudder )"

Canopic jar, c. 1353-1336 B. C

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In ancient times, Pliny the Elder ( N. H. 5. 11 ) said that upon reaching the delta the Nile split into seven branches ( from east to west ): the Pelusiac, the Tanitic, the Mendesian, the Phatnitic, the Sebennytic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic.

Records from ancient times ( Pliny the Elder ) show that the delta had seven distributaries: ( from east to west ) the Pelusiac, the Tanitic, the Mendesian, the Phatnitic ( or Phatmetic ), the Sebennytic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic ( also called the Herakleotic, e. g. at Alexander 1. 31 ).

Sais () or Sa el-Hagar was an ancient Egyptian town in the Western Nile Delta on the Canopic branch of the Nile.

The Nile delta has shifted since ancient days so bear in mind the city was situated directly on the Canopic ( westernmost ) branch.

Naucratis or Naukratis, (), loosely translated as "( the city that wields ) power over ships " ( Piemro in Egyptian, now Kom Gieif ), was a city of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile river, 45 mi ( 72 km ) SE of the open sea and the later capital of Ptolemaic Egypt, Alexandria.

Canopic jars were used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife.

He writes that in earlier myths, Pandora was married to Prometheus, and cites the ancient Hesiodic Catalogue of Women as preserving this older tradition, and that the jar may have at one point contained only good things for mankind.

Another major contribution to Biblical archaeology from excavations at Lachish are the LMLK seals, which were stamped on the handles of a particular form of ancient storage jar.

Diogenes of Sinope, a major figure in the ancient Greek philosophy of Cynicism, claimed that a simple life was necessary for virtue, and purportedly lived in a jar.

Nitta claims that the surrounding burial pits are contemporary to the stone jar as they are cut into the ancient surface on which the jar was placed.

The earliest confirmed occurrence of the name Lavapura is on silver coins inscribed Lava on the obverse and Pura on the reverse in a Pallava-derived script of the seventh or eighth century ; several such coins were reccovered in 1966 from a hoard found in an ancient jar in U Thong.

** One jar filled with glass beads, many filled with olives, but the majority contained a substance known as Pistacia ( terebinth ) resin, an ancient type of turpentine.

Blue lotus symbol ( Nymphaea caerulea ) among other ancient Egyptian symbols on an 18th Dynasty jar.

Hazma and his Coyote Crew fight the Meanys to capture the great jar that holds ancient secrets of Egyptian knowledge and to unravel the truth.

Hapi, one of the Four Sons of Horus that guarded the organs of the deceased in ancient Egyptian religion, is also represented as hamadryas-headed: Hapi protected the lungs, hence the common sculpting of a stone or clay hamadryas head as the lid of the canopic jar that held the lungs and / or represented the protection of the lungs.

LMLK sites as of February, 2008 Though most of these stamped jar handles have been found in the southern kingdom ( 71 sites in the ancient territory assigned to the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Simeon ), some have also been found in the northern kingdom ( 4 sites in the northwest region ).

During 1963-1965, excavations at Herod the Great's palace on Masada, Israel, revealed a cache of date palm seeds preserved in an ancient jar.

One recent suggestion by Stephen Quirke ( Ancient Egyptian Religion ) explains it as meaning " She of the ointment jar ".

Hieroglyphs for the four sons of Horus used on an Egyptian canopic jar

Image: KV55-CanopicJar-AmarnaQueen-CloseUp MetropolitanMuseum. png | Close-up of an Egyptian alabaster canopic jar thought to depict a likeness of Kiya, from tomb KV55-on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A single manuscript of the Gospel of Philip, in Coptic ( CG II ), was found in the Nag Hammadi library, a cache of documents that was secreted in a jar and buried in the Egyptian desert at the end of the fourth century.

Among the objects found as offerings in the tomb were jade beads around the necks of two of the corpses, wafer-like disc shells forming a choker on one skeleton, jade earplug flares, an unusually large amount of shells, a fine obsidian blade, a tortoise shell, metates, and various fine pottery pieces including a whistling jar and a carved tripod vessel.

For the complex case of unidentified amounts, the parts and examples of a mass are indicated with respect to the following: a measure of a mass ( two kilos of rice and twenty bottles of milk or ten pieces of paper ); a piece or part of a mass ( part, element, atom, item, article, drop ); or a shape of a container ( a basket, box, case, cup, bottle, vessel, jar ).

The name Angophora comes from the Greek phora (" carries ") from phoreus (" carrier ") from pherein (" to carry "), and angos, meaning " box ", " jar " or " vessel ": this refers to the cup-shaped fruit borne by members of the genus.

It also gains a vessel called a phylactery, or soul jar, in which its spirit is stored.

Onshore explorations near Bet Dwarka in Gujarat revealed the presence of late Indus seals depicting a 3-headed animal, earthen vessel inscribed in what is claimed to be a late Harappan script, and a large quantity of pottery similar to Lustrous Red Ware bowl and Red Ware dishes, dish-on-stand, perforated jar and incurved bowls which are datable to the 16th century BC in Dwarka, Rangpur and Prabhas.

The head jar is a ceramic vessel with a human head painted on it, along with trees and plants sprouting from the head.

* Stirrup jar, a two-handled amphora whose opposing handles connect the aperture to the sides of the vessel

Chamber B2 produced another incised jar fragment, a seal impression, several ink inscriptions and interestingly, vessel fragments bearing Ka and Narmer names.

Vessels – Heavy type storage vessel, water jar, Dish, cookware, small and large Plate, bowl, Deep

Make paper patterns for sections of jar and lid ( see Fig. 1, opposite page ).

To assemble jar, put paper pattern B for base in bottom of mold and clay disk B on top.

Make lid for sugar bowl the same as jar lids, omitting design disk.

At the end of the session, each voter tossed one of these into a large clay jar which was afterwards cracked open for the counting of the ballots.

They are not effective for killing large beetles and similar specimens, but insects that have been killed in a cyanide killing jar can be transferred to a laurel jar to await mounting.

He also explained the apparently paradoxical behavior of the Leyden jar as a device for storing large amounts of electrical charge.

Franklin imagined electricity as being a type of invisible fluid present in all matter ; for example, he believed that it was the glass in a Leyden jar that held the accumulated charge.

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Di Novi also notes that, when her father was a session musician for Day, he and the other musicians had to put money in a " swear jar " when they cursed.

For easier distribution of large programs, multiple class files may be packaged together in a. jar file ( short for Java archive ).

The idea for the Leyden jar was discovered independently by two parties: German scientist and jurist Ewald Georg von Kleist, and Dutchmen Musschenbroek and Cunaeus.

By the middle of the 19th century, the Leyden jar had become common enough for writers to assume their readers knew of and understood its basic operation.

By the early 20th century, improved dielectrics and the need to reduce their size and inductance for use in the new technology of radio caused the Leyden jar to evolve into the modern compact form of capacitor.

If a charged Leyden jar is discharged by shorting the inner and outer coatings and left to sit for a few minutes, the jar will recover some of its previous charge, and a second spark can be obtained from it.

When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.

The image on the front of the British jar shows a " marmite " (), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot.

Nag Hammadi is best known for being the site where local farmers found a sealed earthenware jar containing thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices, together with pages torn from another book, in December 1945.

In Hesiodic scholarship, the interpretive crux has endured: Is the imprisonment of hope inside a jar full of evils for mankind a benefit for mankind, or a further bane?

A number of mythology textbooks echo the sentiments of M. L. West: " retention in the jar is comforting, and we are to be thankful for this antidote to our present ills.

Second, does the jar preserve Elpis for men, or keep Elpis away from men?