Anubis Trinket Box

Egyptian Museum, Cairo Dynasty XVIII, 1347-1237 B.C. This statue of Anubis as a black jackal was found guarding the entrance to the "treasury" chamber of King Tutankhamun. Anubis is essentially a funerary god, venerated as the lord of the necropolis. He guides the dead in the next world, watches over them and presides over mummification.