EditorialCanis aureus, Print, The golden jackal (Canis aureus) is a wolf-like canid that is native to Southeast Europe, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and regions of Southeast Asia. Compared with the Arabian wolf, which is the smallest of the gray wolves (Canis lu...
EditorialCanis aureus, Print, The golden jackal (Canis aureus) is a wolf-like canid that is native to Southeast Europe, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and regions of Southeast Asia. Compared with the Arabian wolf, which is the smallest of the gray wolves (Canis lu...
EditorialProteles lalandii, Print, The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is an insectivorous mammal, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called "maanhaar-jackal" (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), "ant hyena...
EditorialCanis mesomelas (Black-backed jackal; male). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786. Measurements: h 660 mm ? w 480 mm; h 183 mm ? w 306 mm; h 135 mm ? w 253 mm.
EditorialCanis mesomelas (Black-backed jackal). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: 1773 - 1786. Measurements: h 660 mm ? w 480 mm; h 162 mm ? w 300 mm; h 145 mm ? w 277 mm.
EditorialSugrīva has been defeated and reproaches Rāma for not helping him, but Rāma tells him he was unable to distinguish between him and his brother. On their way back to Ki?kindhā to renew his challenge, Rāma and Lak?ma?a salute the Saptajanas’...
EditorialEgyptian art. Sarcophagus with mummy. Anubis-jackal and sokar-falcons. Figures like these were placed upon the coffin in the Late Period. The Ba-Bird represent a soul. Wood. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. National Museum of Denmark.
EditorialJackal, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.); W. 2.5 cm (1 in.); L. 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.), The canine deity Wepwawet stands on the upper portion of a sledge with cobras at his feet. He is attentive...
EditorialJackal standard, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.); W. 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); L. 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.), The canine deity Wepwawet stands on the upper portion of a papyriform standard; he is attenti...
EditorialCommon jackal, Canis aureus aureus (Sacalius aureus). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842.
EditorialEgyptian art. Sarcophagus with mummy. Anubis-jackal and sokar-falcons. Figures like these were placed upon the coffin in the Late Period. The Ba-Bird represent a soul. Wood. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. National Museum of Denmark.
EditorialEgypt. Necropolis of Saqqara. Mastaba of Kagemni (2350 BC). Chief Justice and vizier of the Pharaoh Teti. Hieroglyphic characters. Duck and jackal. 6th Dynasty. Old Kingdom.
EditorialAnubis, the jackal-god of the necropolis, holds the sceptre Zekhem between his forepaws and the whip Nekhekh between his hindlegs. Tomb of Sennedjem " Servant in the Place of Truth", Workmen's Tombs (13th BCE), New Kingdom. Deir el-Medina, Egypt.
EditorialFalcon god Horus and Anubis, the jackal-headed god of the dead. Reliefs on the walls of the temple of Sobek and Horus (2nd BCE), Ptolemaic Period, Egypt.