Wooden Figure Of Crouching Dog, Anubis
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 May 1957
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harold N. Cox
label: Site Name
content: Luxor
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Hound-like dog; crouched on all fours, hind legs under body, fore-legs extended, head raised. Head, legs and front half of body covered with thick black paint. Left ear broken. See: N. Dorin Ischlondsky, "A Peculiar Representation of the Jackal-God Anubis," JNES 25:1 (Jan. 1966), pp. 22-23." 1978 NMNH slide set caption: Anubis Figure, wooden, carved, jackal god of mummification, tail repaired, Egyptian, Luxor, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 3000 B.C.
label: Notes
content: Associated with mummy (catalog number 126790).
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Anubis statue, 664-30 B.C. Known as "He who is on his mountain," Anubis figures like this sat atop a special chest holding the deceased's organs. The god's black skin color represents soil and fertility, as well as the darkness the dead passed through before rebirth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Qena, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ptolemaic Period
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 215032
label: USNM Number
content: A419609-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 17.5 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 46.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 9.4 cm