The jackal-headed god of embalming is the earliest representation of a therianthropic deity and a highly common amulet purely funerary in nature in the Late Period1. Most amulets in faience or metal depict a striding god
Faded green glaze H 6.2, W 1.4, D 1.9 Late Period Private collection DA
Copper alloy striding on a platform with two uraei, one broken H 6.3 Late Period-Ptolemaic Period MET #04.2.428
Blue glaze H 8.0, W 1.8, D 2.5 Late Period © 2014 Musée du Louvre/Christian Décamps #N 4502
Reference
1Andrews C. Amulets of Ancient Egypt, 1994, pp. 46-47 and Figs. 20b, 38i