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A stunning replica for your art collection, this reproduction of an Egyptian artifact will become an instant converation piece!

The coffin is shaped as a mummiform Anubis figure, arms crossed on the chest holding ankhs, the Egyptian symbol of life. The Egyptians didn't worship the animals, but the forces of nature that they symbolized. Anubis, God of the Dead, represented with a head of a jackal or simply as a jackal opened the road to the other world and presided over embalmments.

After a funeral, Anubis would take the deceased by the hand and introduce him into the presence of the sovereign judges where the soul of the deceased would be weighed. Anubis, the Guardian of Offerings, was brought to the ceremony by heirs of the deceased. He also guarded the mummy from evil forces in the night. When the body was embalmed, a priest wearing a jackal mask acted as Anubis's representative.

In addition he was the guardian of the Sacred Esoteric Mysteries. The origin of this God lay in the fact that jackals could be heard howling in the desert to the west of the Nile at sunset-at the time when burials took place.