Online Activities: Ancient Egypt
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2) Cosmetic pot This small jar (approx. 5 cm high) was used to store black eye-liner, made by grinding a lead - sulphide known as galena, which the ancient Egyptians applied all around the eye. It was thought to protect as well as enhance the eyes - men, women and children used it. |
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3) Scribal palette This object was used to store reed pens (in an elongated depression) and to mix the red and black inks (in round wells) which the scribes used in writing out documents on papyrus. |
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4) Shawbti Little statuettes like this one were placed in a tomb as substitutes for the tomb owner when he was called upon in the afterlife to do his corvee duties in the field. As many as 700 shawbtis (which can be made of wood, stone and frequently blue faience, a rough glass substance) have been found in various tombs in Egypt. |
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5) Canopic jar When bodies were mummified, the lungs, liver and intestines were removed and mummified separately and placed in canopic jars. The four jars were placed in the tomb close to the body. Each organ was assigned to a specific jar, identified by the stopper as well as the inscription. This particular jar housed the liver of the deceased. |
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