Anubis Standing

ca. 600 BCE (Late Period; Saite) H with base: 16 5/8 in. (42.3 cm) Citation Source image

Anubis, the god of embalming and protector of the deceased, is depicted with a man's body, a jackal's head, and long wig. The arms and the tip of the nose were made separately. The figure was likely made for a tomb.

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as 18th Dynasty, Upper Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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