Anubis

Anubis was the mythical preparer of the dead for the Egyptian underworld. Statues of the deity stood in the Well of the Souls at Tanis to serve as guardians over the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant.

Hieroglyphics in the city's Map Room included Anubis' role in protecting the Ark. Before he had seen the statues for himself in 1936, archaeologist René Emile Belloq was uncertain whether the picture on the Map Room wall was of Anubis or another, such as Set.

Appearances

 * Raiders of the Lost Ark