Jackal Inlay

Jackal Inlay

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This inlay of a recumbent jackal was found with the shrine inlay on which it originally would have perched. This jackal likely represented either Anubis, the chief god of embalming, or Wepwawet, the "Opener of the Ways" who escorted the deceased into the underworld.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.