Sunday 14/Sep/2025 – 09:30 PM
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced a plan to transfer the rare archaeological piece known as the statue of the deity discovered within the holdings of King Tutankhamun from the Egyptian Museum halls to edit to the Grand Egyptian Museum, as part of the preparations for the opening of the new museum.
The transfer of King Tutankhamun’s holdings begin from October 20 to 30, with all the accepted museum insurance and transportation measures, to ensure the safety of the piece, which is one of the most prominent archaeological treasures associated with embalming rituals in ancient Egypt.
This piece is one of the most important holdings of the modern state, as it was made of wood lined with plaster and bitumen, and gone with gold paper, with vaccination of silver, calcite and Obisidian, and it represents the god Anubis in the form of Ibn Awi, one of the most prominent symbols of protection and guidance to the other world in the ancient Egyptian belief.
Specifications of the archaeological piece of King Tutankhamun
According to Cairo sources 24 details of the piece as follows:
Made materials: Wood is lined with plaster and bitumen, a doctrine of gold paper, silver, gold, quartz and Obsidian
Penalt specifications: Height 118 cm, length 270 cm, width 52 cm.
The Anopis statue was installed on the sliding cover of a shrine box; The inner shrine was placed on a stretcher used to carry the image of the god in the processions, and the statue was found at the entrance to the treasures room of the golden king, and his nose was turned towards the burial chamber, perhaps until his threatening body was intimidated, that is, an infiltrator, and when he was found, he was wrapped in a piece of linen dated seventh year of Akhenaten’s rule, while leaving the head only exposed. The statue was also surrounded by a more accurate cloth, shawl, and wreath of lotus flowers and water matches, and between the front palms, a painting of ivory belonging to the writer Merittein, one of the daughters of Akhenaten and the six.
Anopis is usually depicted in the form of a black dog or in a hybrid shape with a human head and a human body. He was the master of the city of the dead and the supervisor of the rituals of embalming; He was also responsible for guiding the souls of the dead to the underworld and showing them in front of Osiris to the weight of their souls, and during the funerary ceremonies, the role of God was represented by a priest wearing the mask of Ibn Awi.
