A limestone statue of Anubis as a recumbent canid, originally painted black, Egyptian, end of Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 343 to 30 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum's own title and controlled-vocabulary tag both name the figure as Anubis. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 69.105, Egyptian Art department, Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, 1969.
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Date of Creation Attributions
TraditionAncient Egyptian religion 1 Subject Matter
Depicted SubjectAnubis, the Egyptian god of embalming and the necropolis, shown in his canine form 1 Custody
Current LocationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1 Current CustodianThe Metropolitan Museum of Art 1 Custody HistoryAdelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1969 1 Physical Form
MediumLimestone, originally painted black 1 DimensionsL. 64 × W. 16.5 × H. 38.1 cm, 20 kg (25 3/16 × 6 1/2 × 15 in., 44 lb.) 1 Rights and Reproduction
Reproduction and CopyrightThe Metropolitan Museum of Art has designated this work as being in the public domain and makes it available through its Open Access policy; no permission is required for reproduction. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Anubis directly: "A limestone statue of Anubis as a recumbent canid, originally painted black, Egyptian, end of Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 343 to 30 BCE."
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The Metropolitan Museum's own title, "Statue of Anubis as a recumbent canid," names the subject outright, and the museum's own Getty AAT and Wikidata linked tag confirms the identification.
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