Anubis Fetish (Imiut)

This ritual object features a tall, vertical pole tightly bound in ancient linen strips, which sits upright inside a small, flared stone vessel. The vessel is filled with a dark, hardened resinous material used as an anchor. These objects were essential in Egyptian funerary rites, specifically linked to the preservation and transition of the deceased into the afterlife.

The Imiut is a central iconographic element in the Egyptian funerary cult, representing the skin of a flayed animal (often associated with Anubis) and symbolizing the process of bodily reconstitution and the divinity of the dead. It serves as a precursor to later hermetic and alchemical motifs concerning the transformation and 'rebinding' of the corporeal body for spiritual immortality.