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merelygifted:

Stela of Siamun and Taruy worshipping Anubis

Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: reign of Thothmes IV
Date: ca. 1400–1390 B.C.E.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Sandstone, paint
Dimensions: 0.591m x 0.456m
Credit Line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890
Accession Number: 90.6.128

Translation:

In the cartouche:

mn-xpr.w-ra

Menkheperure (prenomen of Thothmes IV)

Above the god:

jnp.w nb tA Dsr

Anubis, Lord of the Sacred Land

Above Siamun and Taruy:

rDi.t jAw n jnp.w jn wab [zA-jmn] sn.t=f mr.t=f tA-rwj

Giving praise to Anubis by the wab priest [Siamun] and his beloved sister Taruy

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/554784


inonibird:

One thing that’s bugged me for years is the bad rap that Anubis tends to get in popular culture. Stop passing him the Villain Ball. He ain’t that bad/scary.
…Well, and neither is my depiction of Ammut. 9_9
What a pair.


amntenofre:

statue of the Goddess Sekhmet (lioness-heaeded and wearing the Solar disk with the uraeus), and an Obelisk of King Ramses II from Tanis.
Now in the garden outside the Cairo Museum



sobekreshuten:

Sobek
Dua Sobek, Great Crocodile, Lord of Terror, Green of Plume, Sweet of Love!

“Sobek embodies the creative potency of the Nile—vested especially in the Fayyum lake, the center of Sobek’s veneration—and, by extension, the primordial creative power of the cosmos itself, in perhaps its most intense form. Sobek is depicted either as a crocodile or as a crocodile-headed man, often wearing a crown with solar disk and plumes.” x