Egyptian funerary religion
Anubis
Anubis watches over the embalmed body and appears at the funerary couch. Tirard identifies him as the god of embalmment, while noting that early texts can overlap his attributes with those of Osiris. In the judgment scene he leads the deceased before Osiris. Protection of the body and escort of the person therefore belong to the same divine office.
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Principal account
TraditionalAnubis watches over the embalmed body and appears at the funerary couch. Tirard identifies him as the god of embalmment, while noting that early texts can overlap his attributes with those of Osiris.
Further detail
TraditionalIn the judgment scene he leads the deceased before Osiris. Protection of the body and escort of the person therefore belong to the same divine office.
Context & interpretation
Tirard’s 1910 account interprets selected funerary texts and rituals through the scholarship of her period. Local cults and surviving manuscripts vary; her comparisons and proposed origins are not a modern Egyptological consensus.
Original passages
Source 1
The Book of the Dead
as a mummy with blue flesh. Anubis, the god of embalmment, often identified with Osiris, is represented watching over the mummy ; he also takesOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 109
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0109
- Original scan leaf
- 119
- Recorded leaf number
- 109
- Current Reader position
- 102
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Source 2
The Book of the Dead
Anubis then comes forward and leads him into the presence of his judgeOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 143
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0143
- Original scan leaf
- 153
- Recorded leaf number
- 143
- Current Reader position
- 134
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
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