The emblem of Anubis

<!--<!--A note about god Anubis (impw):

<!--He was considered the son of Nephtys from an illegitimate relationship with Osiris and fearing from her husband Seth she deserted him then he was adopted and brought up by Isis. Later he helped her in the mummification of the first mummy known to us which is the mummy of Osiris.

<!--Anubis was the god of mummification or embalmment. He was represented in the form of a jackal because the jackal was always seen prowling about the tombs and devouring the dead bodies

<!--The cult center of Anubis was the city of El Keis near

<!--Bani Mazar in El Menya. The Greek called it Cynopolis, the city of the dog which was the capital of the seventeenth nome of Upper Egypt

<!--He is either represented as a recumbent jackal or a man with the jackal head

Titles:

Tpi Dw.f: he who is upon his mountain

Imy-wt: he who is in the embalming city or he who is within his wrappings  

Nb ta Dsr: lord of the necropolis (divine land)

Xnty sH nTr: who is in front of the divine booth

The divine booth is either the embalming tent in which the mummification was performed or the burial chamber itself

Anubis had many roles in ancient Egyptian religion. He led the mummy to the hall of Osiris in the last judgment, and together with Osiris he watched the ceremony of the weighing of the heart. He is often represented by the funerary bier with one hand laid on the mummy. He also played an important role in the opening of the mouth ceremony

The emblems:

<!--These emblems are a pair of identical emblems found in the northwest and southwest corners of the burial chamber of Tutankhamen’s tomb.

<!--The upper part is made out of wood and overlaid with gesso and gilded. It represents a pole terminating in a lotus bud and an inflated animal skin suspended on the pole by a copper wire tail ending in a papyrus flower. The base consists of a solid alabaster pot in which the pole is fixed. Inscribed on the base are names and titles of the king given life forever and ever and the epithet mry impw imy wt: beloved of Anubis who presides over the embalming booth.

<!--In very remote times this fetish or emblem belonged to god imywt meaning he who is in his wrappings who was eventually identified with Anubis the jackal god of embalming. It is recorded as early as the 1st dynasty but is best known through its association with Anubis being depicted in the chapel of Anubis at Deir El Bahary and elsewhere

<!--An early example found in 1914 by the Metropolitan Museum of art near the pyramid of Sesostris I at el Lisht was placed in a wooden shrine. Like the emblems found in Tutankhamen’s tomb. It consists of a wooden rod and an alabaster pot but the headless animal skin was real and it was stuffed with linen. It was however wrapped in bandages like a mummy with linen pads being placed within the bandages as packing to fill the irregularities between the skin and the rod. The pot was about two thirds full of a blue colored substance completely dried and considered to be some king of ointment. From the above mentioned example it is easy to deduce how the god acquired the name he who is in his wrappings

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The importance of the position of the emblem

The outermost shrine of the king seems to be corresponding in style with the pavilion in which the Egyptian kings performed some of the ceremonies of their Hb sd. These emblems are shown on the monuments in connection with the pavilion. Tut didn’t live long enough to celebrate his jubilee but the presence of these emblems would enable him to do so in the next world.