Unpublished Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Statuette of

Mokhtar El-Behairy, Hanaa; Sherif El-Gazzar, Asmaa

doi:10.21608/mfth.2021.227675

Unpublished Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Statuette of "tʒ-ḫrt" (Egyptian Museum SR.6850)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Lecturer at the Department of Tourism Guidance at The Higher Institute for Qualitative Studies, Heliopolis, Egypt

² Lecturer at the Department of Tourism Guidance at The Higher Institute for Specific Studies, Giza

10.21608/mfth.2021.227675

Abstract

Ptah-Sokar-Osiris statuettes are very common in Egyptian collections at museums around the world ^{(^[1])}. These funerary statuettes were introduced towards the end of the Third Intermediate Period ^{(^[2])}. The production of these figures evolved during the Late Period. Several tombs of the Late Period elites are equipped with the funerary statuettes (usually from wood) representing Ptah-Sokar-Osiris ^{(^[3])}. This funerary tradition extended until the Ptolemaic Period. The Egyptian museum houses many statuettes of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, one of which is the main concern of this paper. It is made out of painted limestone and dates back to the Late Period. It is on display at Room (22) at the second floor of the museum.

([1]) The researchers would like to express their gratitude to the Curators of the Egyptian Museum at Cairo for consent to publish objects from their collections.
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([2]) Petrie dates it back to the New Kingdom burial customs of placing wooden statuette of Osiris in private burials. F. Petrie, The Funeral Furniture of Egypt, London, 1937, p. 28; for further reading on the earliest references to these statuettes, see Raven, OMRO 59–60, p. 253-254.

([3]) C. Graindorge, “Sokar”, in OE III, p. 306.

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