Date: ca. 747-525 BCE
Findspot: Egypt, Karnak, Temple of Amun (Karnak Cachette)
Location: The Walters 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 right cobra wears the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and the left cobra wears 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.
Image source: https://art.thewalters.org/detail/5710/a-worshipper-kneeling-before-the-god-anubis/
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