Pollard, Joseph: The land of the monuments: notes of Egyptian travel (London, 1896)

CHAPTER XV]

ASSIOUT



Assiout—Aiipu or Anubis—Lycopolis—Mountain cemetery " Tomb
df the Sacred Wolf " -Meri-ka-Ra—Hy«ena—Bishop Gobat—
Bazaars Doum-palm.

/HP>HE modern name ofAssiout is a modification

1 of the ancient name of the city Siaul-l.yco-
polis. The god of the city was Anpu, Anubis, or

"the opener of die way" from Ap-"to open"; uat,

"the way"), represented by a jackal, or by a human
form with a jackal's head. He was one of the chief
gods of Amend, the land of departed souls, the god
of the embalmers, and the guardian of tombs; he i<
sometimes called the "Chief of the Mountain," from
the fact that tombs are generally excavated in the
cliffs and valleys of the western range of mountains.
Anpu was also the guide of the souls after death ; his
duty was to attend them in "the Judgment Hall of
the two truths." " Anubis may be considered to answer
to death in a good sense, as the departure of the soul
from the bod)- on its way to a better state, and is
only applied to mankind. The figure of this god

* "Anumi Egyptians," iii. p. ido, new ed.