Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Statue of Djedhor

3D Model

RAFFMA, EG.01.006.2006

Mid. Ptolemaic (ca. 200-100 BCE)

Painted wood and gesso

72 cm (high) / 12.6 cm (wide at base) / 37 cm (long at base)

Drexel Collection (1895); Michigan Institute of Art (1916), Harer (1975/76). Gift in 2006.

This is a statue of the Ancient Egyptian god Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. He symbolized regeneration and was associated with the creative powers of the earth, the Nile flood, grain, and mummification. Statues like this were included in tombs during Egypt’s Late and Ptolemaic Periods. This is an example of Martin Raven’s Type IVC. A cavity in the base could have once held a small mummy or bundle of embalmed material. The inscription says the owner was a man named Djedhor who lived in Akhmim. A mummy from Akhmim with the same names is on display in the British Museum with a very beautifully decorated and gilt-faced anthropoid coffin. Otherwise the inscription is an offering formula invoking five distinct gods.

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