Egyptian art:Jackal
Figure of a jackal, Third Intermediate Period, ca.1070-664 B.C.
Jackals were closely associated with mummification and the journey of the deceased to the afterlife. The two principal deities depicted in this form are Anubis, the god of embalming, and Wepwawet, who escorted Osiris, and by extension all the dead, into the underworld. Without an inscription, it is not always possible to tell which god a jackal is meant to represent.
This recumbent jackal may once have been on top of a coffin or shrine-shaped funerary box.
Egyptian art:Jackal
Figure of a jackal, Third Intermediate Period, ca.1070-664 B.C.
Jackals were closely associated with mummification and the journey of the deceased to the afterlife. The two principal deities depicted in this form are Anubis, the god of embalming, and Wepwawet, who escorted Osiris, and by extension all the dead, into the underworld. Without an inscription, it is not always possible to tell which god a jackal is meant to represent.
This recumbent jackal may once have been on top of a coffin or shrine-shaped funerary box.