Canopic

But instead of taking the eastern branch back to Pelusium, the little fleet headed down the westernmost branch, known as the Canopic, toward the Greek trading post at Naucratis.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

But instead of taking the eastern branch back to Pelusium, the little fleet headed down the westernmost branch, known as the Canopic, toward the Greek trading post at Naucratis.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

There is even a mound topped by a kind of forge of the Rhine gold--what Barney's calls his Canopic Chest.

G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

There is even a mound topped by a kind of forge of the Rhine gold--what Barney's calls his Canopic Chest.

G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

But instead of taking the eastern branch back to Pelusium, the little fleet headed down the westernmost branch, known as the Canopic, toward the Greek trading post at Naucratis.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

There is even a mound topped by a kind of forge of the Rhine gold--what Barney's calls his Canopic Chest.

G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

BRYAN: Right this is actually something called a Canopic box, and a Canopic is -- refers to jars that the Egyptians kept their internal organs in.

CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2002 2002

This fixed year, known as the Canopic or Tanitic year, began on 22 October, 238 B.C.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

For, in the reign of this monarch, Paris the Trojan, returning home with Helen whom he had stolen, was driven by a storm into one of the mouths of the Nile, called Canopic; and from thence was conducted to Proteus at Memphis, who reproached him in the strongest terms for his base perfidy and guilt, in stealing the wife of his host, and with her all the effects in his house.

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701

Given that the Canopic jars of Egyptians hold the vital organs of the deceased should they be of use in the afterlife, the title seemingly endows the claw with the function of extracting the metal insides of the deceased Chrysler Imperial god.

G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011