Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
The chamber held a shrine, which once held the wooden coffin of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep. A great tree-lined court was reached by means of the processional causeway, leading up from the valley temple. Beneath the court, a deep shaft was cut which led to unfinished rooms believed to have been intended originally as the king's tomb.
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 box numbered 317 is visible in the corner, to the left of the Anubis Shrine The mummies were buried in Tutankhamun's tomb, in the north-eastern corner of the treasury. Their coffins were found in an open wooden box atop a stack of items that included ushabti shrines, boxes, and a model boat; beside them sat another miniature nested coffin ...
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 ...
A heart-weighing scene shows Khonsu being led by Horus and Khonsu's wife by Anubis and a funeral procession accompanied by male mourners. [3] The left end wall has four registers depicting Sennedjem and relatives adoring the Hathor-cow within a shrine, a banqueting scene, and the lowest register shows a funeral procession. [3]