A WOOD FIGURE OF A JACKAL
THIRD INTERMEDIATE TO LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXVI, 1070-712 B.C.
The black painted figure reclining with his forepaws out-stretched, the upraised pointed ears with painted chevron pattern in red, a red band painted at his chest, the eyes white, an insertion in back for the the now missing tail
21 in. (53 cm.) long
拍品專文
Similar figures of Jackels adorn the tops of wooden funerary shrines and four-poster sarcophogai. For an example in Vienna see number 103 in Seipel, Gotter, Menschen, Pharaonen.