The Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure appears
at the end of the New Kingdom, and
is a very common feature of burials
through to the roman period. A
wooden mummiform figure stands
on a wooden base, usually with a
plumed crown and a horizontal pair
of idealised ram's horns.
This statuette depicts Ptah-Sokar-
Osiris in his human-faced form.
Popular in funerary contexts after
1000 BCE, this composite deity
represents Ptah, the creater god of
Memphis; Sokar, patron of the
Memphite necropolis; and Osiris, the
chief god of the afterlife and ruler of
the underworld. Together, they
suggest birth, death, and
resurrection.
- (FA.4a)
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