ID: 901000707 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000707	Record Type: Character/Person

	Anubis (Egyptian deity)

Note: Ancient Egyptian god of the dead, represented by a jackal or the figure of a man with the head of a jackal. The oldest known reference to Anubis is in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2686-ca. 2181 BCE).

Display Date: before 2686 BCE

Names:

	Anubis (Egyptian deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Anpu (Egyptian deity) (English,U,N)
	Ἄνουβις (Egyptian deity) (Greek,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Egyptian iconography> (P)
		........<Egyptian characters> (P)
		............Anubis (Egyptian deity) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deities
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Ancient Egyptian (culture)
	.....(Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	takes the form of .... jackal
	.....(Canis (genus), Canidae (family), Carnivora (order), Mammalia (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Anubis (Egyptian deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Bowker, Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1997)
	Anpu (Egyptian deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Ἄνουβις (Egyptian deity)
	................Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis#/media/File:Anubis_attending_the_mummy_of_Sennedjem.jpg