Lidded Vessels

Ancient Egyptian Canopic Jars and the Four Sons of Horus.

     Canopic jars were stone and ceramic vessels used for the burial of the viscera removed during mummification. Canopic equipment is found in Ptolemaic tombs but stopped being used by the Roman period. The last known royal canopic jars belonged to après        (589-570 BC)

 

 

 

 

 

      This lidded vessel was placed as a cache during a building-dedication ritual. It portrays a deity from the Palenque triad known as GI, whose characteristic features include a central shark's tooth and fish fins. A mythological bird rests on the deity's head.

Cache Urn, Guatemala, AD 250-450Ceramic  

 

     " Elegant long-necked cormorants raising fish from the surface of the water " are a common theme on Early Classic vessels. This particular vessel rests on four naturalistic peccary heads, another aspect of such tetrapods.
Guatemala 250-400Cermaic with slip   

 

          Moche (Mochica) ceramic pot vessels are photographed in the form of a group of five. These seated Moche warriors are from the La Mina site in the Jequetepeque Valley of Northern Peru. The Moche culture began about 200 B.C., lasting to about 1000 A.C. inhabiting the North Coast of Peru. The Moche artists produced the only realistic or naturalistic fine art sculpture visual art in pre-Hispanic or pre-Columbian South America. Much Mochican clay pottery survives, often painted with red and white slip.