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Tag: Osiris

Iconopgraphy in the Clay Coffin of Men.
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The Puzzle of Egyptian Art. Dismembering an Iconography to Understand it.

Posted on 27/12/2021 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

As we have seen in a previous post, the iconography of this coffin contains traditional images of Egyptian art to guarantee the resurrection of the deceased. In...

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Hair and Movement in the Post-Amarna Period.

Posted on 27/06/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The artists in ancient Egypt used the bending hair for drawing body movements. The Egyptian artists in Amarna could also depict hair in a more plastic and less ...

Senet board. Arizona State Museum (ASM 12496)
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The Senet Game: Three Steps to Eternity.

Posted on 18/12/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The Senet game of Ancient Egypt was a board game for leisure in common life, which also had its funerary side. It was present in the wall decoration and was par...

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Funerary Mask of Artemidora: Solar and Osirian Resurrection.

Posted on 21/08/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

Recently we posted about the decoration on the upper register of the funerary mask of Artemidora. In it, we could differentiate two main elements: to the mourni...

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The two Mourners in the funerary Mask of Artemidora.

Posted on 19/08/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

We know how important was the decoration on the corpse in Ancient Egypt. The egyptian artist selected the most effective iconography for the benefit of the dece...

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Osiris at both sides of Artemidora.

Posted on 02/04/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

The both sides of the mummy was a good place for strategical iconography. At first sight, it seems that the Egyptian artist did not spend many sources in the de...

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Isis and Nephthys on the feet of Artemidora.

Posted on 26/03/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

Isis and Nephthys are the most preeminent figures on the decoration over the mummy of Artemidora. Over the wrappings of the feet, two appliqués of gold depicted...

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Isis and Nephthys on the Mummy of Artemidora

Posted on 21/03/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

Looking carefully at the decoration on the mummy of Artemidora we can discover the intentions of the artist.

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SUPERPOSITION IN ANCIENT EGYPT. ISIS AND NEPHTHYS OVERLAPED.

Posted on 22/02/2016 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The artists of Ancient Egypt had a particular conception of perspective, which affected in the way they depicted groups of living beings and amounts of things. ...

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In Ancient Egypt were Isis and Nephthys Essential in Cartonnages.

Posted on 23/04/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

Cartonnages in Ancient Egypt were used over the wrapped mummy mainly for mummy masks and some important parts of the body. The cartonnage of Irtirutja in the Me...

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In Ancient Egypt Isis and Nephthys became Midwifes of Nut.

Posted on 02/03/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

The most evident proof of the importance in Ancient Egypt of Isis and Nephthys in a rebirth process is in the Books of the Day and Night, which describe the jou...

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Isis and Nephthys rising Osiris-Re in the XX Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

Posted on 16/02/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

The religion of Ancient Egypt developed during the New Kingdom sophisticated religious texts, which combined the solar theology with the Myth of Osiris. As a co...

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Isis and Nephthys, Essential in the Ancient Egyptian Union of Re and Osiris.

Posted on 03/02/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The union of Re and Osiris supposed a challenge to the Ancient Egyptian Art, since new iconography was needed for decorating the tomb walls and the papyri. From...

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A challenge in the Art of Ancient Egypt: Osirian-Solar Iconography.

Posted on 19/01/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

One of the main challenges for priests and artists in Ancient Egypt were to combine the osirian and solar cosmogonies in the funerary literature and iconography...

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Isis in Ancient Egypt: A Winged Snake with Hathoric Crown.

Posted on 15/12/2014 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

There is always news about artifacts of Ancient Egypt. Now it is the turn of the coffin of “Denit-Ast”. It dates from the Persian Period and it is i...

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Isis with Apis in Ancient Egypt Iconography.

Posted on 03/12/2014 by mrvaldesogo

Isis and Osiris were in the religion of Ancient Egypt the perfect couple. Despite the murder of Osiris, they could go on, Isis could revive her husband and both...

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Had in Ancient Egypt the Goddess Nephthys a Lower Status?

Posted on 05/11/2014 by mrvaldesogo / 2 Comments

There is a scene of the Book of the Dead from the tomb of Ay, in which are depicted on the solar boat the gods of the Heliopolitan cosmogony and the Myth of Osi...

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Sexual Stimulation in Ancient Egypt: The Ushabti of Pay.

Posted on 08/10/2014 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

In ancient Egypt the dead needed many faculties for restarting his new life in the Hereafter: breathing, seeing, walking…and virility. Sex was an essentia...

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