Osiris, Egyptian God of the Afterlife
Bronze statue of Egyptian God Osiris with crook and flail, Egypt, Late Period -Roman Period (711 BC-150 AD). Osiris was an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. The king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set).
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