Caption
Vatican City Museum Part of the reconstruction of Hadrians Villa Tivoli showing the 2nd Century white marble Statue of the god Anubis lord of mummification who guided the dead to the underworld here represented according to the Roman style as a personage clad in a toga but following an "Egyptian" iconography. In his right hand he holds a sistrum while in the left he has the caduceus of Hermes which was used to guide the souls in the Greek-Roman religion
