Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · architecture

Coffin Fragment with Two Images of Anubis

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Description

Caption: Coffin Fragment with Two Images of Anubis, ca. 1292 B.C.E. or later. Wood, pigment, 5 7/8 x 11/16 x 10 5/8 in. (15 x 1.7 x 27 cm) mount (support/display board): 7 x 11 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. (17.8 x 29.8 x 4.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.2045E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

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

The artifact depicts two stylized jackal figures identified as Anubis.

This ancient Egyptian artifact displays two jackal figures seated atop shrines, identified as Anubis. Each figure is painted in black with a red ribbon around the neck. The scene includes hieroglyphs above the figures and is bordered by a decorative pattern. The style suggests a funerary context, with iconography common in depictions of Anubis.

funerary New Kingdom good
Deities Anubis
Materials woodpaint
Signs jackal ×2 Anubis ×2 unknown hieroglyphs ×5
Visible text "𓇋𓏏𓎡"

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Deities Anubis
Materials WoodPaint

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.2045E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 217344 tier-2
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