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The emblem of Anubis, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun

The upper part is made out of wood and overlaid with gesso and gilded. It represents a pole terminating in a lotus bud and an inflated animal skin suspended on the pole by a copper wire tail ending in a papyrus flower. The base consists of a solid alabaster pot in which the pole is fixed. Inscribed on the base are names and titles of the king given life forever and ever and the epithet ‘mry impw imy wt’: beloved of Anubis who presides over the embalming booth. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.