Wooden statuette of Anubis, New Kingdom
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This black wooden sculpture represents the god Anubis (Hry-sata), sitting upon the Secret. “The Anubis dog is probably the jackal and is thus referred to under the name ‘sab’ in early texts...Certainly the black coat of Anubis is not true to nature but symbolic. It represents the discolouration of the corpse after its treatment in natron and the smearing of the wrappings with a resinous substance during mummification. This leads on to the idea of rebirth in the afterlife… In the Pyramid Era, Anubis is closely allied to the monarch who is described as having Atum’s body but the face of Anubis. When the king joins the sun-god in the afterlife he takes Anubis with him on his neck” (Hart 1986:22). Bibliography (for this item)Hart, George1986 A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, United Kingdom. (22) Khalil, Hassan M. 1976 Preliminary Studies on the Sanusret Collection. Manuscript, Musée l’Egypte et le Monde Antique, Monaco-Ville, Monaco. ((I) 71) |
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