EditorialBebi, round arch, This limestone stele with a round bow is from a staff member named Bebi. Two eyes and a ring are shown at the top. The inscription contains a sacrificial formula for the gods Wepwawet and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. This last god is composed o...
EditorialPtah-Sokar-Osiris Figure, Ptolemaic Period, 306?30 B.C., From Egypt, Wood, paint, gesso, H. 81.5 cm (32 1/16 in.); base: L. 43 ? W. 12 cm (16 15/16 ? 4 3/4 in.), Hollow wooden figures of Osiris were used to hold funerary texts on papyrus scrolls in the...
EditorialPtah-Sokar-Osiris Figure, Ptolemaic Period, 306?30 B.C., From Egypt, Wood, paint, gesso, H. 81.5 cm (32 1/16 in.); base: L. 43 ? W. 12 cm (16 15/16 ? 4 3/4 in.), Hollow wooden figures of Osiris were used to hold funerary texts on papyrus scrolls in the...
EditorialPtah-Sokar-Osiris Figure of Ankhshepenwepet, Late Period, Kushite, Dynasty 25, ca. 712?664 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb, 1923?24, Wood, paint, H. 48 cm.