1912 Anubis analysis gave a rotation period of 4.626 and 4.628 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.47 and 0.18 magnitude, respectively (). CALL adopts the shorter period of 4.626 hours. This minor planet was named after Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god and protector of the dead. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1979 (). 1912 Anubis 1912 Anubis, also designated , is a stony Koronian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was named after the Egyptian deity Anubis, "Anubis" was discovered on September 24,
Bata (god) Bata (god) Bata from Saka is an Egyptian bull-god of the New Kingdom, who represents together with his brother Anubis the 17th Upper Egyptian Nome. Until the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty Bata was represented as a ram and later as a bull. Bata is probably identical with the death god "Bt" of the Egyptian Old Kingdom, known from the Saqqara necropolis, for instance from the Mastaba of Ti. Bata is not mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts. Bata is the name of the protagonist in the "Tale of Two Brothers", a copy of which survives on the