© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Peter Harholdt.

ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Anubis Statuette

AAT Object Form/Functionstatuettes (free-standing sculpture)

AAT Object Techniquepainting (coating)

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodNew Kingdom or later

Dateafter 1539 BCE

MediumWood

Credit LineCharlotte Lichirie Collection of Egyptian Art

Dimensions9/16 x 1 3/16 in. (1.4 x 3 cm)

Object number1999.001.138

Label TextThe jackal god Anubis played a crucial role in protecting the dead and helping them achieve a good afterlife, and statuettes of this deity often adorned the tops of wooden funerary shrines and coffins. This miniature example may have come from a model coffin or a box for sacred oil.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - July 2008
Published ReferencesPeter Lacovara and Betsy Teasley Trope, The Realm of Osiris (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2001), 17.

ProvenanceEx coll. Niagara Falls Museum, Niagara Falls, Canada. Purchased by MCCM from William Jamieson (1954-2011) [Golden Chariot Productions], Toronto, Canada.

Status

Not on view

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