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,
Ancient Egyptian deities iconography, and even temple architecture. Meanwhile, the cults of several Egyptian deities—particularly Isis, Osiris, Anubis, the form of Horus named Harpocrates, and the fused Greco-Egyptian god Serapis—were adopted into Roman religion and spread across the Roman Empire. Roman emperors, like Ptolemaic kings before them, invoked Isis and Serapis to endorse their authority, inside and outside Egypt. In the empire's complex mix of religious traditions, Thoth was transmuted into the legendary esoteric teacher Hermes Trismegistus, and Isis, who was venerated from Britain to Mesopotamia, became the focus of a Greek-style mystery cult. Isis and Hermes Trismegistus were both prominent in the