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Description: | ; Date(s): circa -1069 - circa -664; Classification(s): figure, statuette, carved; Acquisition: given by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major, 1943 [E.GA.4315.1943]
Description: Anubis jackal. Anubis was shown in the form of a jackal. He was the god of embalming and cemeteries. On Theban tomb paintings a second jackal is often shown with Anubis, this is Wepwawet, who was the jackal god of Upper Egypt. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | figure statuette | Temporal: | name=Third Intermediate period; start=-1069; end=-664 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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