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Painted wooden figure of Anubis

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Title/s	Painted wooden figure of Anubis
Category	figure
Name	statuette
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.
Field Collection	Egypt
Dimensions	length 45 cm
Period	Third Intermediate period
Date	circa 1069 B.C. — 664 B.C.
Provenance	given: Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major 1943 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Ischlondsky, N. D. A peculiar representation of the jackal-god Anubis Source title: Journal of Near Eastern Studies (January 1966) [comments: 21, n. 14]
Material/s	wood
Accession Number	E.GA.4315.1943 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 58773; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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Painted wooden figure of Anubis