Anubis Amulet
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
This Anubis amulet depicts the god as a striding man with a jackal head. As is common in such representations, he is wearing a kilt and his arms are extended along the sides of his body. He stands on a small rectangular base and the back of the piece features a back pillar that was pierced horizontally along its top third.
Anubis was an important mortuary god, who was responsible for mummification and the general protection of the dead. A pendant in his shape was a popular funerary amulet.
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