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Amulet with Anubis; Egypt, Late Antiquity, 664-332 BC.

Amulet with Anubis; Egypt, Late Antiquity, 664-332 BC. Bronze. Presents good state of preservation. Measures: 10 x 5 x 2 cm; 11,5 cm (Height, base). Bronze amulet representing the figure of the god Anubis, dressed with royal skirt and tripartite wig. The piece shows the god with a man's body and jackal's head, standing with one leg and hand forward. A hand in which it seemed to carry a spear, which is currently lost. In the rear area we can see a hoop in suspension that allows to hold the piece. Anubis is the funerary deity par excellence of Egyptian mythology, master of the necropolis and patron of embalmers. He is one of the most ancient gods of Egypt, and is represented as a large black lying canid, a jackal or wild dog, or as a man with the head of this animal. In the early dynastic period of Egypt (c. 3100 - c. 2686 B.C.), Anubis was portrayed in full animal form, with the head and body of a "jackal." Jackals were strongly associated with cemeteries because they were scavengers who uncovered human bodies and ate their flesh. In the Old Kingdom, Anubis was the most important god of the dead. Although he was replaced in that role by Osiris during the Middle Kingdom. In the late Pharaonic era (664-332 B.C.), Anubis was often depicted as guiding people across the threshold from the world of the living to the afterlife. The disintegration of the New Empire marked the beginning of the long period known as the Low Period (7th-4th centuries BC), during which the Egyptian state was progressively weakened, before finally being conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and becoming part of the Hellenistic world. The Ptolemaic period lasted until the Roman conquest in 30 BC. This long period of Roman domination, although it extends until the Muslim conquest in 638 (from 395, after the death of Theodosius, Egypt becomes part of the Eastern Roman Empire), includes a first period where the ancient Egyptian structures still dominate, which lasts until the fourth century, when paganism is definitively prohibited.

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Amulet with Anubis; Egypt, Late Antiquity, 664-332 BC.

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