This Anubis is 32cm high. It is a beautiful statue from myths and legends the Egyptian collection. The jackal-headed god,was the god of the dead. He supervises the weighing of the soul when they are brought to the hall of the dead. He was the guide for the dead as they trail through the darkness of the underworld. Anubis was painted black to further link him with the deceased- a body that has been embalmed became a pitch black color. Black was also the color of fertility, and thus linked to death and rebirth in the afterlife