vintage Egyptian Anubis proffering life 12" black relief plaque reproduction

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History Egyptian Anubis proffering life 12" www.Neo-Mfg.com Museum reproduction
Size: 11.75" tall x 7.87" Wide  Chip on back corner.
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Mold made from a print of the original work on display at the Louvre.
History Egyptian Anubis proffering life 12" www.Neo-Mfg.com Museum reproduction Size: 11.75" tall x 7.87" Wide Mold made from a print of the original work on display at the Louvre. This museum replica shows one of the inscriptions of the sarcophagus of Taho , son of Renpetneferet. It is a particularly beautiful representation of the ancient Egyptian ghost Anubis, who holds the Anch sign, the symbol of life in his hand. The sarcophagus of hard, black basalt is richly ornamented in the interior and shows the deities, which are connected with the ritual of mummification. Here in particular Anubis and the four sons of Horus, whose protection the deceased were recommended in ancient Egypt. The sarcophagus of the Taho is one of the most impressive and beautiful works of art that the French linguist and Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion(1790-1832) brought 1827 from Egypt to France. On the basis of the found inscriptions and the type of representations, the sarcophagus in the 4th or 3rd century. v. To be dated to the beginning of the Ptolemaic period. The original relief now belongs to the Egyptian collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris . one of the numerous images decorating the inside of the sarcophagus of Taho. It is an admirable anthropoid sarcophagus, cut in black basalt, a dark and hard stone.Its interior is decorated with numerous figurines and inscriptions, related to the navigation of the sun in the underground world.