Anubis on his Pylon-Shaped Shrine

Anubis on his Pylon-Shaped Shrine Egypt: New Kingdom,Eighteenth Dynasty Reign of Tutankhamen (c.1361-1352 BCE)   The Lord of the Necropolis, a recumbent but alert canine god (Anubis), guards the entrance to a room in Tutankhamen's tomb, called the treasury. In addition to serving as a watch-man in cemeteries and tombs, Anubis was said to preside over the embalming of the dead and to conduct the Weighing of the Heart, a ceremony in which the deceased was judged in the presence of Osiris, the king of the dead.     See All of Book One