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Anubis Amulet

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 08.480.219. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 08.480.219
Find spot: Thebes (Deir el Bahri), Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period to Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26 to Dynasty 30, or later
Date: 664–30 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['Gold']
Height: 2.8 cm
Width: 1.1 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Anubis Amulet (08.480.219). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18455

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Description

Caption: Anubis Amulet, 664–30 B.C.E.. Gold, 1 1/8 x 7/16 x 1/16 in. (2.8 x 1.1 x 0.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.219. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Small gilded figure-like amulet depicting a standing, jackal-like form on a base.

The image shows a small gold-colored object centered against a gray, textured background. The figure is standing upright with a long snout/jackal-like head profile and a raised tail or back curve; the body appears to be stylized with layered folds or garment-like detailing. The amulet is mounted as a compact, single-piece casting with a flat or slightly raised base. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or legible inscriptions are visible, and no identifiable royal name appears. The overall presentation matches an amulet format (small scale, solid metal casting).

religious Late Period to Ptolemaic Period (as catalogued; exact dating unclear from the photo alone) good

Deities Anubis (uncertain, jackal-like form suggests but not definitively confirmable from this image)

Materials Gold (gilded metal)

Connections

Found at Thebes

Deities Anubis

Materials Gold

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 08.480.219 tier-2
BKM-Object 19271 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.