1. Also found were fragments from the four canopic jars from alabaster and sacrifice jars from the same material.

2. During the 1st Intermediate Period, the stoppers of canopic jars began to be modelled in the form of human heads.

3. The late N. T. Hamilton found that the version of Ptolemy's models set out in the Canopic Inscription was earlier than the version in Almagest. Hence Almagest cannot have been completed before about C.E.

4. 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.

5. Cinerary urn forming an element of a funerary column and method for making such urns in stone: urne cinéraire formant élément de colonne funéraire et procédé de fabrication de telles urnes cinéraires en pierre: The Cinerary urn (the so-called canopic urn) was often placed on a chair like this or, more frequently, on a throne with a circular back