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The Anubis Shrine was found behind the unwalled entrance which led from the burial Chamber to the Treasury. The shrine, with a figure of the god Anubis on top, was facing towards the west. Behind it was the large canopic shrine containing the king's canopic chest and jars. During the work in the burial chamber, the entrance to the Treasury ...
At the north end of the middle terrace is a shrine dedicated to the god Anubis. [33] [43] [45] This shrine is smaller than its counterpart to Hathor in the south. [43] [53] It comprises a hypostyle hall adorned with 12 columns arranged into three rows of four, followed by a sequence of two rooms terminating at a small niche.
A pair of Anubis-jackals lying on rectangular tomb-shrines face each other across a large bouquet in the uppermost, semi-circular register; unlike the rest of the decoration, which has a yellow background, this is executed on a light grey background. In the second register, Kha is depicted twice, once on the left and once on the right, kneeling ...
Anubis as a jackal perched atop a tomb, symbolizing his protection of the necropolis "Anubis" is a Greek rendering of this god's Egyptian name. [7] [8] Before the Greeks arrived in Egypt, around the 7th century BC, the god was known as Anpu or Inpu. The root of the name in ancient Egyptian language means "a royal child."
The New Kingdom Gurob Shrine Papyrus is a fragment of a workman's designs for a portable altar. It dates perhaps to the 18th Dynasty. One of the best-known artifacts of Ancient Egypt is the Anubis Shrine, which is in a portable form, placed atop a palanquin. The statue of a recumbent jackal is attached to the roof of the shrine.
Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...
The 2,200-year-old tomb complex is the “largest, highest-level and most complex” tomb of its kind ever found, reported the Shanghai Eye, a Chinese state-supported news outlet. Two artifacts ...
Tomb S9 is part of a royal necropolis dating back to the late Middle Kingdom – Second Intermediate Period, which is located immediately northeast of the causeway leading to the much bigger funerary complex of Senusret III of the 12th Dynasty, [4] close to the ancient town of Wah-Sut and at the foot of the so-called Mountain of Anubis, a natural hill in the form of a pyramid.