Standing Figure of the God AnubisThe jackal-headed god Anubis is depicted striding on a high pedesta
Standing Figure of the God AnubisThe jackal-headed god Anubis is depicted striding on a high pedestal decorated with a palace facade. He is wearing a kilt and a vest decorated with a feather motif. He is adorned with a broad collar and bracelets as well as armlets on his upper arms. His two hands are extended slightly forward. The appearance of the god shows the canonical mixture of a canine head with a human body.Anubis, god of death, mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries, tombs, and the Underworld. Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Now in the Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim. -- source link
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