CHAP. XIV. ANUBIS NOT DOG-HEAUED. 143 



been included under the same generic denomi- 

 nation. But no representation occurs of Anubis 

 with the head of that animal. The dog is rarely, 

 if ever, found except as a domestic animal, in 

 Egyptian sculpture : the only one I remember to 

 have seen, which had any reference to a sacred 

 subject, was in a mutilated statue representhig a 

 man seated beneath the animal's head, in the atti- 

 tude common to figures found in the tombs ; and 

 the hieroglyphics accompanying it plainly show it 

 to have been a funereal group. But it is possible 

 that even this was intended to represent a jackal ; 

 for unless the exact character of the latter has 

 been carefully maintained, it is difficult, in a mu- 

 tilated statue, to distinguish between it and the 

 Egyptian fox-dog ; and from its forming part of 

 a funereal group, and therefore connected with 

 Anubis, it is more likely to have been intended 

 for the jackal than the dog. I have restored the 

 lost portions of it in the drawing given in the 

 plate. * The hieroglyphics are evidently of early 

 time ; and if it was really intended to represent a 

 dog, it only goes to prove that this animal was also 

 dedicated to Anubis. 



The fidelity of the dog and its utility to man 

 were no doubt the original causes of its being ad- 

 mitted amongst the sacred animals of Egypt ; and 

 it is evident from the paintings that it enjoyed 

 great privileges as a domestic animal, being the 

 constant companion of persons of all classes, as in 



* Vide Plate 43. fig. 4. 



