Once in a Thousand Years
Beautiful.
Tutankhamun flanked by god Anubis and goddess Hathor, Hathor offering him life with the ankh. Detail of south wall paintings from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62). Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.
detail from the interior of the coffin of Bakenmut:
Bakenmut offering an ointment jar to the God Anubis (jackal-headed, green-skinned, wearing the Double Crown, mummiform, holding the ‘Heqa’-scepter and the Flail).
ca. 1000-900 BCE. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art…
Detail of Anubis, from the South Wall of the Burial Chamber in the Tomb of Tutankhamun.
Anubis attends Sennedjem’s Mummy, wall painting from the Tomb of Sennedjem (TT1). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes.







