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Anubis seated on a tomb-shrine, symbolizing his protection of the necropolis. The shrine is mounted on a sledge-shaped palanquin which has two carrying poles projecting from the front and back. It is therefore presumed that the Anubis shrine was used in the funerary procession of the Pharaoh before being placed in front of the canopic chest in ...
The Opening of the Mouth ceremony being performed on a mummy before the tomb. Anubis attending the mummy of the deceased. Extract from the Papyrus of Hunefer, a 19th-Dynasty Book of the Dead (c. 1300 BC) There were many challenges the dead had to face before they were able to enter into the final stages of the afterlife.
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.
To unravel the science and secrets of the ancient tomb, we must journey back to the source: the tale of King Tut’s curse and the sequence of improbable events surrounding the man who ...
Anubis is often depicted wearing a ribbon and holding a nḫ3ḫ3 "flail" in the crook of his arm. [45] Another of Anubis's attributes was the jmy-wt or imiut fetish, named for his role in embalming. [47] In funerary contexts, Anubis is shown either attending to a deceased person's mummy or sitting atop a tomb protecting it.
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 ...
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.
On the doorjambs are prayers to Osiris and Anubis above a seated Khnumhotep II who is facing inward. [2]: 32 At the back of this main room (east wall) is a small rectangular shrine approached by a step about 13 centimetres (5.1 in) high. Newberry mentions that from his survey of the tomb there was a statue here of a seated Khnumhotep II, but ...