TAA i.2.4.1a

Black Shrine shaped boxes containing nome standards. Antechamber N^o 37, 38.

Note May, 1926. In the hills behind my house

at Elwat E'diban, Western Thebes, I saw a pair

of jackals about 6pm making their way towards

the cultivated land. They probably had cubs in the

hills as otherwise it was early for them to descend to

inhabited and cultivated quarters. But the great

interest was, while one [of] them was of normal size

and colouring, the other - I was unable to tell

whether dog or bitch, as they did not approach nearer

than 250yds - was totally black, much taller

and attenuated, resembling, though tail not quite

so bushy, the type ỉnpw as found upon the monuments.

This is the first example of that colouring and of that kind

of jackal I have seen in Egypt for over 35 years

experience in the desert, and it suggested to me, unless

the black jackal is known, a spot of the old and

original Egyptian jackal only now know to us

as Anubis.

[ 𓂀 ] is what it appeared like through my

Zeiss glasses, while the other was a much

stouter & smaller animal of normal colouring -

a grisly grey brown.

(p 19)