Bronze Egyptian Large Anubis Statue

Anubis supervised the embalming, took the dead as the "conductor of souls" to be weighed before the judge of the infernal regions and guarded the Cities of the Dead. He was represented as a canine, perhaps a jackal or therianthropically as having a canine head and tail. In primitive times he was probably simply the jackal god. His parents were usually given as Re in combination with either Nephthys or Isis. After the early period of the Old Kingdom, he was superseded by Osiris as god of the dead, being relegated to a supporting role as a god of the funeral cult and of the care of the dead. All of our items categorized as bronze are actually unique pieces crafted using an original British technique where bronze powder is combined with cold cast resin. This mixture produces easy-to-handle figurines with the delicate and beautiful look of actual antique museum pieces.