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Anubis, who takes upon himself the form of a black jackal

(without gender); who is the earlier conceptions was the fourth son

of Re, but later he figures as the child of Osiris and Nephthys;

whose attributes were: "Lord of the West", "Lord of the Dawing^sic {Dawning} Earth",

"Chief of the Western Desert", "Dweller in the Sacred land", "Dweller

among the Westerners" (i.e., the dead), "The god lord of Igret", as well

as being the vigilant deity who watches over the dead; or as

he is styled here …; is appropriately placed in the open

doorway of this Room, facing outwards (to the West) to guard against

the intruder. His position is evidently not the result of mere

chance, but intentional; it enables him to watch over the

Burial Chamber and its occupant while he also guards his

domain, this innermost Recess.

We have already noticed his curious emblems upon poles,

placed behind the N.W. and S.W. corner of the Great Sepulchral

Shrine (Vol. II. p. pl. ) in the Burial Chamber, and here enclosed

within his pylon fixed upon a palankeen are further strange

symbols, ~~of him~~ <(Sup. 18)> and the deity's Jewellery.

(261a)

Carved of wood, painted black and gold, this god was protected

with linen dated <in> the fourth year of the Lord of the Two Lands, Kheperu,

Re ^. Ari ^. Maat (King Ay). His body was draped in a thin

(261b)

gossamer-like shawl tied at this throat, and around his

(261, d)

h neck a leash-like scarf of dark linen adorned with a double

(261C)

fillet of cornflowers and … woven upon pith ~~tied~~/<fastened with bows> at the back

of the neck. Under these depicted encircling his neck is a gold

collar and another scarf (of gold) represented tied with knot at the

throat like the real r linen one just described.

Curiously enough after 35 years experience of desert life, and

many hundreds, I may say thousands of jackals that I have

seen in the desert wadys, it was only last ~~year, la~~ Spring,

May 1926, that I witnessed any thing resembling this

Anubis form of jackal. While strolling ~~towards~~/<at> sunset in the

valley behind my house in Western Thebes, I encountered a