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Ancient Egyptian-style illustration showing Osiris, depicted with blue skin, wrapped in white and holding a crook and flail, standing beside Isis, who wears a green dress and holds an ankh, with a throne-shaped crown on her head. Osiris, bronze figurine of the Late Period; in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin King Seti I offering a figure of maʿat to Osiris, Isis, and Horus; relief in the temple of King Seti I, Abydos, early 13th century bce.
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Osiris, bronze figurine of the Late Period; in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin
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Osiris and the Four Sons of Horus
Osiris and the Four Sons of Horus Osiris and the Four Sons of Horus, tempera on paper facsimile by Nina de Garis Davies and Hugh R. Hopgood, 1915; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; based on a scene depicting Osiris (right) and the sons of Horus from the Tomb of Nebamun and Ipuky at Thebes, Egypt, c. 1400–1352 bce.

Osiris

Egyptian god
Also known as: Usir
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Osiris, one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt. The origin of Osiris is obscure; he was a local god of Busiris, in Lower Egypt, and may have been a personification of chthonic (underworld) fertility. By about 2400 bce, however, Osiris clearly played a double role: he was both a god of fertility and the embodiment of the dead and resurrected king. This dual role was in turn combined with the Egyptian concept of...

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