Statuette of a Jackal
Late Period, Dynasty 26 (664-525 BCE)
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 9.5 × 17.5 × 5.1 cm (3 1/2 × 6 7/8 × 2 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Museum Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This statuette represents the god Anubis or Wepwawet, the jackal guardians of burial sites. The figure is solid cast from copper alloy, and the details of its fur are incised. The figure may originally have decorated the top of a shrine.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
