With gently curved obverse and flat reverse, section of an inlay depicting Anubis, with thick neck and beginning of extended foreleg.

Cf. Smith, S., ‘A Glass Figure of Anubis,’ The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Mar., 1936), pp. 118-119 and pl. XXXII, no. I, for a
complete example in black glass.

This coloured glass inlay depicts Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification and protector of the dead. Likely part of a coffin or
shrine, it demonstrates the use of glass to imitate precious materials in elite funerary art. The figure’s profile and predominantly black
colour evoke Anubis’s role in preservation and the afterlife.

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