Artist Credit: Urumiya
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 Visible hieroglyphs, attributes, and was-scepter are based on historical reference.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.
Djinns –genies, spirits, demons in Islamic folklore– dancing and laughing before a pilgrim, in the form of jackals or desert dogs and probably with malicious intent.
From a copy of the legendary manuscript ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt’ —Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing. Zakariya al-Qazwini, b. Qazvín, Persia ~ 1200s Bibliothèque Infernale on FB
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