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Ushabti of the Chief Steward Pedi-neit
Multiple rows of incised Egyptian hieroglyphs are present on the front of the torso and legs; specific sign forms are n…
Religion
The Egyptian Afterlife
Osiris, Anubis, coffins, shabtis, and the Book of the Dead · 4,772 objects.
Funerary equipment, the gods of the dead, and the texts that were meant to get a person through the underworld. Coffins and shabtis from the museums sit next to ORAEC editions of the embalming ritual, the Songs of Isis and Nephthys, and the Book of Overthrowing Apophis.
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Shabti of Siptah
A band of incised hieroglyphs on the lower torso; individual characters are too worn/low-resolution to reliably transcr…
BM-EgSu
amulet
Note: Group of four hieroglyphs.
ARTIC-EG
Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut
“Words spoken by Osiris Foremost of the West, Lord of Abydos, Wenenefer, Lord of Eternity… that he might give offerings…
CMA-EG
Octodrachm: Head of Arsinoe II (obverse); Double Cornucopia (reverse)
Of father-loving Arsinoe
WALTERS-EG
Scarab with a Human Face
[Translation] The three hieroglyphic signs: nfr, bj.tj, and nfr have in this context most probably no syntactic relati…
for the benefit of Yartiuerow
ISAC-MC
Book of the Dead
offerings on one face
AMARNA-EES
?ritual equipment: ?offering table
Translation: 'words spoken by Osiris...(?)' Note: Moulded, incomplete. The reading of the signs seems certain but the interpretation is doubtful.
BM-EgSu
amulet
Ritual for the Transfiguration of Osiris in the Necropolis, to be performed in the temple of Osiris-Chontamenti, the Great God, Lord of Abydos at all festivals for Osiris and at each of his epiphanie…
n,t-ꜥ n sꜣḫ Wsjr m ẖr,t-nṯr jri̯ m ḥw,t-nṯr [n,t] [Wsjr-ḫnt,j-jmn,t.pl] [nṯr-ꜥꜣ] nb-ꜣbd m ḥb〈.pl〉 nb n Wsjr m…
ORAEC
1. Ritual der Verklärung des Osiris (Buch IV) / Papyrus des Djed-Hor aus Armant (pLouvre N. 3079)
[Translation] An offering which the King gives to Re-Horakhty///// over the heaven of the gods who go forth upon the horizon, words of Osiris, the Priest of Amun Djed-///////, son of the Priest of Am…
WALTERS-EG
Model Wooden Coffin
Mummified goose case
MET