Commission for a friend of mine. I was requested to depict one of the Egyptian deity, Anubis in an art illustration. Visible hieroglyphs, attributes, and was-scepter are based on historical reference.
Watercolor. 2018
Statue of the jackal-headed god Anubis. Late Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664-525 BC. Now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Relief of Anubis
The black jackal Anubis reclines on a shrine, a sash tied around his neck and a golden flail supported by his hind leg, waiting to greet Nefertari, detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Queen Nefertari (QV66). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Valley of the Queens, West Thebes.
the God Anubis (jackal-headed) making adorations to the Goddess Nephthys represented kneeling upon the hieroglyph for “gold” and with the hand before Her face in a gesture of mourning.
Detail from a mummy mask (cartonnage), 50 BCE-150 CE. Now in the Houston Museum of Natural Science…
Anubis & the Bride, 2018
Anubis & the bride portrays the Egyptian god of the dead seated on a throne beside his new bride. In his right hand he holds an embalming jar, symbol of his trade. His bride is adorned with a pearl necklace and a blue veil streaming down her sides like the flow of the Nile. By her side is Bastet, the goddesses of protection and cats and the defender of the pharaoh and behind her is Taweret, the goddess of childbirth and fertility whose animal form is a Hippopotamus. They are in turn surrounded by the beasts and landscape of Egypt, with the Nile and its activity visible in the upper right corner.
Painting by P.J. Crook (English, b.1945). Tinted gesso on canvas and wood.
Relief of Anubis
Detail on the sarcophagus of Thutmose IV with image of Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification. Tomb of Thutmose IV (KV43), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.
