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The gods Osiris and Khepri alongside Nefertari in her tomb. Items portrayed in this file depicts. QV66. Nefertari. creator. some value. author name string: Darer101.
Set fooled Osiris into getting into a box, which Set then shut, sealed with lead, and threw into the Nile. Osiris' wife, Isis, searched for his remains until she finally found him embedded in a tamarisk tree trunk, which was holding up the roof of a palace in Byblos on the Phoenician coast. She managed to remove the coffin and retrieve her ...
A corn mummy with a wax mask of Osiris, Ptolemaic Dynasty, Archaeological Museum of Kraków. A corn mummy or germinating Osiris [1] is an Ancient Egyptian sculpture of Osiris that contained germinated grain seeds, commonly wheat or barley. [2] [3] [4] The rest of the mummy was made up of other materials such as wax, sand and earth.
These include images of a solar boat with the double-headed god Aker, images of Osiris and various gods, the destruction of enemies, and representations of the sun's rays resurrecting various figures. A detailed analysis of these complex scenes are in J. Roberson, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth.
A wooden figure of either the god Osiris [13] or of the composite deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris could be found, [14] [15] [16] along with heart scarabs, both gold and faience examples of djed-columns, Eye of Horus amulets, figures of deities, and images of the deceased's ba.
Click through to see depictions of Jesus throughout history: The discovery came after researchers evaluated drawings found in various archaeological sites in Israel.
The Dendera zodiac as displayed at the Louvre Denderah zodiac with original colors (reconstructed). The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales).
The Serapeum of Saqqara was the ancient Egyptian burial place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis.It was believed that the bulls were incarnations of the god Ptah, which would become immortal after death as Osiris-Apis, a name which evolved to Serapis (Σέραπις) in the Hellenistic period, and Userhapi (ⲟⲩⲥⲉⲣϩⲁⲡⲓ) in Coptic.