DOI Artikel:
Majewska, Aleksandra: "Golden Osiris" in the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0070
anthropomorphic depictions were introduced.5 In representations from the
Middle Kingdom, Osiris is portrayed as a mummy, wearing hedjet - the
5 E. Hornung, “Ancient Egyptian Religious Iconography”, in Cwilization of the Near East, ed.
by J.M. Sasson, New York 1995, vol. III, pp. 1712-1714. Anthropomorphic representations of
deities in the shape of a figurę without distinguished arms, as it was used in the hieroglyphic
representation of the word god - the image appears as soon as in the times of the lst Dynasty
on king Djer's cartouche. Later this shape was transferred to cosmic gods and heliopolitan
Ennead which comprised also Osiris. Meanwhile, the oldest depiction of Osiris, preserved as a
fragment of the upper part of torso and a part of the wig, comes from the relief of king
Djedkare Isesi from the end of the 5,h Dynasty (Griffiths, op. cit., pp. 236-237, fig. 1).
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Middle Kingdom, Osiris is portrayed as a mummy, wearing hedjet - the
5 E. Hornung, “Ancient Egyptian Religious Iconography”, in Cwilization of the Near East, ed.
by J.M. Sasson, New York 1995, vol. III, pp. 1712-1714. Anthropomorphic representations of
deities in the shape of a figurę without distinguished arms, as it was used in the hieroglyphic
representation of the word god - the image appears as soon as in the times of the lst Dynasty
on king Djer's cartouche. Later this shape was transferred to cosmic gods and heliopolitan
Ennead which comprised also Osiris. Meanwhile, the oldest depiction of Osiris, preserved as a
fragment of the upper part of torso and a part of the wig, comes from the relief of king
Djedkare Isesi from the end of the 5,h Dynasty (Griffiths, op. cit., pp. 236-237, fig. 1).
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