Ptar-Sokar Osiris figure

Ptar-Sokar Osiris figure

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This is a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure.

It is from a grave in Dra Abu el Naga, Thebes. A wooden Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure, part of the grave goods of the unknown 30 year old man. Figures such as this were placed in tombs from the end of the Third Intermediate period (about 1069-656 BCE) onwards. Ptah-Sokar-Osiris was the god of rebirth. He was a combination of the god of the dead Osiris, the creator god Ptah and Sokar the god and protector of the necropolis at Memphis. Ptah-Sokar-Osiris usually wears a headdress of ram’s horns and feathers, but on this figure the headdress is now missing.Often, this type of figure was hollow, or the base was hollow, and held a prayer written on papyrus. This particular figure is solid. This is a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure. It is made from painted wood. It is almost 3,000 years old, dating from the 22nd Dynasty (about 945-715 BCE) in the Third Intermediate period.

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