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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Gods, Non-Olympian| ▸ |Osiris||View Options:  |  |  | 

Osiris

Osiris was the Egyptian god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. Osiris was also associated with the cycles of nature, in particular vegetation and the annual flooding of the Nile. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. Osiris was the oldest son of the Earth god Geb, and the sky goddess Nut, the brother and husband of Isis, and father of Horus. The Kings of Egypt were associated with Osiris in death - as Osiris rose from the dead they would, in union with him, inherit eternal life through a process of imitative magic. By the New Kingdom all people, not just pharaohs, were believed to be associated with Osiris at death if they incurred the costs of the assimilation rituals.

Egyptian Faience Ushabti, 30th Dynasty - Ptolemaic Period, c. 380 - 200 B.C.

|Shabtis|, |Egyptian| |Faience| |Ushabti,| |30th| |Dynasty| |-| |Ptolemaic| |Period,| |c.| |380| |-| |200| |B.C.|
AB31059. 11 cm (4 1/4") high, turquoise faience, Osirian form, holding pick and hoe, seed basket over left shoulder, back pillar, uninscribed, Choice, SOLD


Egyptian Faience Ushabti Inscribed "The Osiris, Hemka Nefer," 30th Dynasty to Ptolemaic Period, c. 664 - 100 B.C.

|Shabtis|, |Egyptian| |Faience| |Ushabti| |Inscribed| |"The| |Osiris,| |Hemka| |Nefer,"| |30th| |Dynasty| |to| |Ptolemaic| |Period,| |c.| |664| |-| |100| |B.C.|
Smaller ushabtis are often inscribed "the Osiris" followed by the name of the deceased. Hemka literally means priest and Nefer means good or perfect. Osiris is called "Osiris Hemka" in a sacred text where he begets a son with Isis (who is flying over him as a hawk while he reclines on a lion couch). The inscription may read, "The Osiris, the perfect priest" or more likely reads, "The Osiris" followed by the name of the desceased, "Hemka Nefer."
AW31071. Aquamarine faience, Osirian form, holding pick and hoe, back pillar; a bit carelessly made, 8.4 cm (3 1/4") high, Choice, SOLD







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