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Isis and Nephthys in Ancient Egyptian Solar Iconography.

by mrvaldesogo | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"

It was a fact, that the ancient Egyptian corpus of images needed an iconography for expressing the union of Re and Osiris. And little by little in this iconography Isis and Nephthys, the two mourners of Osiris, became essential. In the XIX Dynasty the ancient Egyptian...

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