. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. serpent, which does not appear in the oldervignettes in papyri, etc. In late papyri it is tolerablycommon.^ In the Papyrus of Ankh-f-en-Khensu in Cairo, the 1 British Museum, No. 10,473. ^^|^^^=^()™^®^BtishMuseum, No. 10,552. ^ See Lanzone, Dizwnarw, taw. 208-211. 44 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection arms and shoulders ofthe god are coveredwith some dark mate-rial, and streamers ofparti - coloured clothhang down, one oneach side of him. Inanother papyrus of thesame period (XXIInddynasty) Osiris is seenlying on the slope of amound of earth, withhis ri
. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. serpent, which does not appear in the oldervignettes in papyri, etc. In late papyri it is tolerablycommon.^ In the Papyrus of Ankh-f-en-Khensu in Cairo, the 1 British Museum, No. 10,473. ^^|^^^=^()™^®^BtishMuseum, No. 10,552. ^ See Lanzone, Dizwnarw, taw. 208-211. 44 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection arms and shoulders ofthe god are coveredwith some dark mate-rial, and streamers ofparti - coloured clothhang down, one oneach side of him. Inanother papyrus of thesame period (XXIInddynasty) Osiris is seenlying on the slope of amound of earth, withhis right arm extendedto the top of it. Hishand nearly touches thehead of a huge serpent,the body of whichpasses down the backof the heap, and emerg-ing from under thefront of it continues indeep undulations. Thelegend reads : Osiris- Res, Khenti-Amenti,great god, dweller inthe Tuat, that is tosay, Ta-tchesert, theAat of the papyrus the godis ithyphallic. In thePapyrus of Anhai^(Plate 5), the god wearsa different crown, viz.,. The goddess Amentet in the shrine of the leather roll of Nekht. J^__, and a wig with a fillet with two uraei; byhis side on the thronestands a hawk wearinga disk ; before him is British Museum, No. 10,472. M ^ CI M I ^r3 O. The Name and Iconography of Osiris 45 the bulls skin hanging from a pole, and behind him standIsis and Nephthys. Before the open door of the shrinestand the Mert-goddess of the South and the Mert-goddessof the North, the former wearing ared, and the latter a green says: Come in peace, protector of the Great Company of the Gods, and Mert-meht says : Thou risest [in] beauty in theHorizon of Eternity.^ The presenceof these goddesses of vegetation con-nects Osiris with the inundation andcrops of the country. In this picturethe god is called Ptah-Sekri-Asar,~and thus is regarded as a triad ofgods of the dead. The Papyrus ofNekht^ supplies another interestingpicture of Osiris. The god is seatedon his
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