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"Heaven shouts, earth trembles
In dread of you,...
"Heaven shouts, earth trembles
In dread of you, Osiris, at your coming!”
-Section from the Teti pyramid texts, Utterance 337, translation: Lichtheim.
Depictions of Osiris throughout Egyptian art.
Osiris is usually identified as the god of the dead, underworld, and afterlife. As shown by the examples of his depictions, he is classically presented with green-skin, a beard fastened by a chin-strap, crowned, holding a crook and flail, and with partially mummified legs.
Hunefer’s Judgement in the presence of Osiris, Book of the Dead, c. 1275 BC. Courtesy of & currently located at The British Museum, London. Photo taken by Steven Zucker.
Head of the God Osiris, ca. 595-525 BC. Courtesy of & currently located at Brooklyn Museum, via their online collections: 48.163.
Osiris, Lord of the Dead, 600 and 550 BC. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum, USA. Via the Wiki Commons.
Irethorru, keeper of the temple of Amon, giving presents to Osiris, Isis and the four sons of Horus. Courtesy of & currently located at the Louvre, France. Photo taken by Rama.
Standing Mummiform Figure of Osiris, 664-332 BC. Courtesy of & currently located at Brooklyn Museum, via their online collections: 11.664.
Head of the God Osiris, 305-30 BC. Courtesy of & currently located at Brooklyn Museum, via their online collections: 58.94.
Osiris in the The Tomb of Horemheb, Valley of the Kings. Photo taken by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra.
