Osiris was the god of death, fertility, and resurrection, whose cult center was at Abydos. He wears an Atef-crown with a central miter flanked by two ostrich feathers. A uraeus cobra sits above his brow. The god’s face is rounded with full facial features. His eyes are inlaid, and plaits of his beard are highlighted in gold leaf. The god’s body is enveloped in a mummified cloak that rises at the back. His hands project from under his cloak, one above the other, and hold the god’s traditional insignia, the heka-scepter and neheh-flail. A broad collar decorates his chest. The legible hieroglyphs on the front socle read, “[Osiris]-Wennefer,” and on the left socle, “giver of life…” The name of the figurine’s donor is destroyed.1
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Translation courtesy of Rune Nyord. ↩︎