How you can use this image

This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).

Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.

The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.

Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.

Notes

Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.

To the East of Tutankhamun's Burial chamber was a storeroom, which Howard Carter named the 'Treasury'. Against the far wall stood a substantial gilded shrine mounted on a sledge, holding the embalmed internal organs of the King, which Arthur Mace described as 'the most impressive monument I've ever seen'. Placed at the Treasury's doorway, as if guarding the entrance, was a portable wooden shrine surmounted by a majestic figure of the jackal-god Anubis, still wrapped in linen covers, topped by a floral garland fastened around the jackal's neck. Work in this room started on 24 October 1926 with Harry Burton's photographic records. This image is the first of two illustrating Burton's artful use of light: in this view, hidden lighting produces a dramatic and mysterious effect, spotlighting the spectacular shrine, while in another picture (Burton p1169a), the light source is in the Burial chamber with a shaft of light highlighting the Anubis shrine.

Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

Oxford

Title

The Anubis jackal shrine

Date

1926

Medium

gelatin silver print

Measurements

H 23.9 x W 17.9 cm

Accession number

Burton p1169

Acquisition method

gift, 1946

Work type

Photograph

Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

Sackler Library, 1 St John Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2LG England

Not all locations are open to the public. Please contact the gallery or collection for more information

View venue

Artist or maker

Harry Burton

1879–1940

View profile

Tutankhamun's gods Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
The Anubis jackal shrine Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Egyptian Boy Wearing Tutankhamun's Pectoral Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Wrapping Tutankhamun's 'Guardian Statue' Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Removing the Roof of Tutankhamun's Shrine Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Archaeologists at Work Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Tutankhamun's Mask Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
40 more