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King Tut exhibit at the Pacific Science Center

Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Tutankhamun (1355-1346 BCE)

Emblem of Anubis

The god Anubis, referred to on the calcite base as "the formost of the mbalming Enclosure" had two emblems in this chamber, one in the north and one in the southwest corner

From a tall pole ending in a lotus hangs a carving of an inflated animal skin whose tail terminates in a papyrus

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