Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . eks, Osiris is stated to represent the inundation, the humid principle,or the moon ; but this was the interior doctrine, and our sole authority, the monuments, givesonly the popular one. Fig. o4 represents the head of Osiris crowned only in the oeit, or white crown, that ofdominion over tlie upper Iiemisphere, and wlien thus represented was considered to personifythe ty])C of Osiris Ouonnoplire, the Greek Onnophris, the revealer of good, the beneficentand celestial god. Tliere is in the collection a small statue of the god, with the he
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . eks, Osiris is stated to represent the inundation, the humid principle,or the moon ; but this was the interior doctrine, and our sole authority, the monuments, givesonly the popular one. Fig. o4 represents the head of Osiris crowned only in the oeit, or white crown, that ofdominion over tlie upper Iiemisphere, and wlien thus represented was considered to personifythe ty])C of Osiris Ouonnoplire, the Greek Onnophris, the revealer of good, the beneficentand celestial god. Tliere is in the collection a small statue of the god, with the head similarlyattired, with liis body bandaged like a mummy, on the l)ack plintlis of which is inscribed,Osiris, the revealer of good, the lord of the heaven, the ruhir of eternity; and on the earliermonuments, Osiris is often styled llie l)ehol(Ur of good. Tlie present head, wliicii is of good For tliis scene cf. Wilk. loc. cit. Cadet, and Iiip. pi. i. Lep- sius (Dr. Ric.) Kit. of Turin, ]]I. I. Wilk. loc. cit. pi. xixiii, 3. PLATL 15 Fig 55.
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