Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis
Ptolemaic Period
Not on view
Among the several canid-headed gods that existed, Anubis was the most prominent and is likely the deity represented in this exquisitely carved and painted statuette. The god stands atop a pedestal decorated with a niched façade. His elaborate tunic has a feather pattern and is overlapped by a hip drape. The drape is painted with stripes of two different shades of green that create an impression of different depths. While one might want to see these stripes as a depiction of pleated linen, an almost identical statuette in the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim (1582), clearly shows them as long, layered feathers. The parallel piece in Hildesheim must have been produced in the same workshop.
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