Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Anūbis

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Anūbis

（Ἄνουβις). An Egyptian divinity, wor

Image of Anubis.

shipped in the form of a human being with a jackal's head. The Greeks identified him with their own Hermes, and thus speak of Hermanuphis in the same manner as of Zeus Ammon. His worship was introduced at Rome during the last years of the Republic (Luc. Tox. 32).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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