Material: Bronze with gilt, gold inlay
Date: ca. 747-525 B.C.
Dimensions: H: 20.8 x W: 14.4 x D: 5.3 cm
Findspot: Egypt, Karnak, Temple of Amun, Karnak Cachette
Current Location: The Walteres Art Museum, 54.400
A bronze statuette of the anthropomorphic god Anubis with two cobras facing a kneeling worshiper. Anubis held a “was” scepter which is now lost. The cobra to the right wears the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and the one to the left the White Crown of Upper Egypt. The inscription reads:
May Anubis give life, health, long life and great and good old age to Wdja-Hor-Resnet, son of Ankh-Pa-Khered, whose mother is Ta-Gemiw(t), who is born of the Mistress of the house, Hy-Inty for Pen-Pa-Djew. May Anubis give life to Wdje-Hor-Resnet, son of Ankh-Pa-Khered. May Anubis, who is before the place of the divine booth, give life, health, strength, a long life, and a great old age and happiness to the son of Ankh-Pa-Khered, whose mother is Ta-Gemiw(t), who is Mistress of the House, Hy-Inty for Pen-Pa-Djew.
Textile fragments were found near the rear of the base and under Anubis’s base. Looking through the small holes in the base caused by corrosion during burial, a small bundle wrapped in textiles, probably linen, was found.
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