Mummies In Ancient Greek Kraters

Abstract: Egyptian canopic jars function as funerary pottery and a symbol of the protection offered by the four Sons of Horus. Although Egypt gets the most recognition, several other ancient cultures have similar pottery used for the dead’s benefit. Greek kraters functioned both as wine mixing pots and pots for liquid offerings for the dead. Both of these ceramics allow the viewer to observe key pieces of their respective cultures’ values, religion, and technology.
Known as Egyptian canopic jars, these jars function as a means to preserve the organs of mummies for their afterlife. The only organs ancient Egyptians thought of as significant were the heart, stomach, lungs, liver, and intestines. However, the heart was left in the body to be weighed against the Ma’at (truth goddess) feather in the afterlife as the deciding factor of the deceased fate: eternal afterlife or devoured by the god Amenti. Ancient Egyptians practiced a seventy day process of preparing the deceased body, therefore following the myth of Osiris the original mummy. Ancient Egyptians used a mixture of baking soda and salt called natron to embalm what they deemed the
The only known myth of Dionysus in Hades is when he retrieved the soul of his mother as a child. There are several key indicators proving that the horror-vacui painting is depicting Dionysus in Hades. There are speculations made that this scene was meant to show that both Hades and Dionysus were two kindred spirits categorized between the Olympic gods and the (starts with a c) Underworld gods (source in folder). Information such as this leads to more awareness about ancient Greek mythology and by extension culture. Which in turn, makes this krater much more culturally eye-opening than the Egyptian blue canopic jars. (MORE ~ indications of d and