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.
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 107, 108 (ill.).
Gunther Roeder, Ägyptische Bronzefiguren (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1956), 343
(441a).
Emily Teeter, “Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1994), 26 (ill.), 27.
Geoff Emberling and Emily Teeter, “The First Expedition of the Oriental Institute, 1919-1920,” in Geoff Emberling, Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-1920 (Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010), 47-48, fig. 4.16.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 28.
Emily Teeter, “Collecting for Chicago: James Henry Breasted and the Egyptian Collections,” News & Notes 226 (Summer 2015), 9.
Ashley F. Arico and Emily Teeter, “Collecting Ancient Egypt in Chicago,” Kmt A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 29, no. 4 (2018-2019), 69 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.
Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936), Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through James Henry Breasted as agent, 1920.
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