Egypt
Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom (Kate Phizackerley)
Kate has posted a special article by Brian Playfair which looks at the interpretation of Anubis as a jackal and offers an alternative suggestion. Here's a short extract from the introduction:
- Egyptian Jackal Is Actually Ancient Wolf
Mongabay The Egyptian jackal, which may have been the inspiration for the Egyptian god Anubis, is actually not a jackal at all but a member of the wolf family. New genetic research in the open-access journal PLoS ONE finds that the Egyptian jackal is...
- Anubis Arrives
11alive.com The Egyptian d Anubis has arrived to make way for the U.S. premiere of "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs." Crews began installation of the five-ton, 25-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god near 13th and Peachtree...
- Exhibition: More Re Anubis, Upwawet And Other Deities
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/837/he2.htm"The exhibition on the museum's ground floor falls within a series organised by the Egyptian Museum to highlight some of the treasures of its collection which has been hidden for decades in its overflowing...
- Exhibition: 1,000 Years Of Offerings To Egyptian Jackal Deity
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/03/10108415.html"A thousand years' worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal deity are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, Anubis, Upwawet...
- The Great Sphinx Of Egypt
The Great Sphinx One of...
Egypt
Feature: Anubis and the Golden Hunting Hounds of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom (Kate Phizackerley)
Kate has posted a special article by Brian Playfair which looks at the interpretation of Anubis as a jackal and offers an alternative suggestion. Here's a short extract from the introduction:
We all know the image of Anubis, we see it in every tomb but how many of these images are wrongly interpreted ? Listed as Anubis the jackal headed god but are we sure that is correct ?
In many Old and Middle Kingdom tombs at Saqqara and Beni Hassan especially those of Nobles, we see practically the same image in both hunting and domesticated form which cannot be a jackal. These are clearly hounds – canines of a very particular breed type depicted as hunters and companions. This middle-sized hound with prick ears and noble presence was the tjesm. Early settlers in the Nile valley in pre dynastic time showed prick eared canines hunting in their art and as the quality of art developed we see this hound in a clearer form, which is no trained or domesticated jackal.
The tjesm was such an important asset to the ancient Egyptian especially when he became a companion as well as a great hunter that it is inconceivable he was not represented as one of the major deities.
- Egyptian Jackal Is Actually Ancient Wolf
Mongabay The Egyptian jackal, which may have been the inspiration for the Egyptian god Anubis, is actually not a jackal at all but a member of the wolf family. New genetic research in the open-access journal PLoS ONE finds that the Egyptian jackal is...
- Anubis Arrives
11alive.com The Egyptian d Anubis has arrived to make way for the U.S. premiere of "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs." Crews began installation of the five-ton, 25-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god near 13th and Peachtree...
- Exhibition: More Re Anubis, Upwawet And Other Deities
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/837/he2.htm"The exhibition on the museum's ground floor falls within a series organised by the Egyptian Museum to highlight some of the treasures of its collection which has been hidden for decades in its overflowing...
- Exhibition: 1,000 Years Of Offerings To Egyptian Jackal Deity
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/03/10108415.html"A thousand years' worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal deity are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, Anubis, Upwawet...
- The Great Sphinx Of Egypt
The Great Sphinx One of...