EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS STATUE on Alabaster w Hieroglyphics Revel Period
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EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS STATUE on Alabaster w Hieroglyphics Revel Period :
$174.99
Beautiful,EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS STATUE on Alabaster Platform with HieroglyphicsDepicting the God Osiris bronze figureFromANCIENTEgypt times 21st-25th Dynasty 1075-600 BCIs a Revel Period Early 1900\'s bronze figure!
SIZE: Total heightis about 6inch TallThe Alabaster base is 3 3/8th Inch X 3 3/8th inchJust the Bronze Osiris is 5 inches tallThe Hieroglyphics Read in old script and new Kingdom script says \"OSIRIS\"The base is alabaster carved platform & painted to the color that you see from all the photos, PLEASE see all of them to see this magnificent Old Egyptian God Figure, that of Osiris, green felt bottom, all looks to be in very good condition, my home is non smoking, this was/is a personal collection item from my own collection of 50+ years so its been under glass for its life with me, medical reasonshaving to sell off my prized collection of Egypt items, from 1920 Estate of Egyptian items still around100 YO
PLEASE Make Your Payment Directly after sales end,Thank you, Buy It Now Price is the lowest I will take for this itemso just listed that price for the buy it now and cut through the chase
Is from my own collection and there are no returns on this item so please read the whole sale, not my fault if you did not read all details about the sale item for sale, sorry Thank You, Colleen
PLEASEREAD MORE INFO: Osiris(Asar, Wesir, Ausar, Unnefer)
Symbols:Crookand flail, djed,White and Atef Crowns, bull, mummified form, throne, Bennue(phoenix)
CultCenter: Abydos,Busiris and Heliopois
Myths:“Isisand Osiris\"
A god of the earth and vegetation,Osiris symbolized in his death the yearly drought and in hismiraculous rebirth the periodic flooding of the Nile and the growthof grain. He was a god-king who was believed to have given Egyptcivilization.
Osiriswas the first child of Nut and Geb,and therefore the brother of Seth,Nephtys,and Isis. He was married to his sister, Isis. He was also the fatherof Horus and Anubis.These traditions state that Nephtys (mother of Anubis) assumed theform of Isis, seduced him (perhaps with wine) and she became pregnantwith Anubis.
Theoldest religious texts refer to Osiris as the great god of the dead,and throughout these texts it is assumed that the reader willunderstand that he once possessed human form and lived on earth. Asthe first son of Geb, the original king of Egypt, Osiris inheritedthe throne when Geb abdicated. At this time the Egyptians werebarbarous cannibals and uncivilized. Osiris saw this and was greatlydisturbed. Therefore, he went out among the people and taught themwhat to eat, the art of agriculture, how to worship the gods, andgave them laws. Thoth helped him in many ways by inventing the artsand sciences and giving names to things. Osiris was Egypt\'s greatestking who ruled through kindness and persuasion. Having civilizedEgypt, Osiris traveled to other lands, leaving Isis as his regent, toteach other peoples what he taught the Egyptians.
DuringOsiris\' absence, Isis was troubled with Seth\'s plotting to acquireboth her and the throne of Egypt. Shortly after Osiris\' return toEgypt, in the twenty-eighth year of his reign, on the seventeenth dayof the month of Hathor (late September or November), Seth and 72conspirators murdered him. They then threw the coffin in which he wasmurdered into the Nile, with his divine body still inside.
Isis,with the help of her sister Nephthys, and Anubis and Thoth, magicallylocated Osiris\' body. Upon learning the his brother\'s body was found,Seth went to it and tore it into fourteen pieces and scattered themthroughout Egypt. Isis once again found every part of his body, savehis phallus (it had been eaten by the now-cursed Nile fish). Shemagically re-assembled Osiris and resurrected him long enough to beimpregnated by him so that she could give birth to the new kingHorus.
Seth of course was not willing tosurrender the throne of Egypt to the youthful Horus and thus atribunal of gods met to decide who was the rightful king. The triallasted eighty years. Eventually through Isis\' cunning she won thethrone for her son.
Osirismeanwhile had become the king of the Afterlife. He was believed to bewilling to admit all people to the Duat, the gentle, fertile land inwhich the righteous dead lived, that had lived a good and correctlife upon earth, and had been buried with appropriate ceremoniesunder the protection of certain amulets, and with the proper recitalof certain \"divine words\" and words of power. His realm wassaid to lie beneath Nun, in the northern heavens or in the west.
Itis as the King of the Afterlife that Osiris gained his supremepopularity. He was originally a minor god of Middle Egypt, especiallyin comparison to the gods of Heloplis andHermoplas,etc. Noting his increasing popularity, and sensing that Osiris wouldone day eclipse the adoration of their own gods, the priests of thesecities adopted him into their own cosmogonies.
The elements of his story was seenas symbolic of real events that happened in Egypt. With his originalassociation to agriculture, his death and resurrection were seen assymbolic of the annual death and re-growth of the crops and theyearly flooding of the Nile. The sun too with its daily re-birth anddeath was associated with Osiris. His rivalry with his brother Seth,the god of storms and the desert, was symbolic of the eternal warbetween the fertile lands of the Nile Valley and the barren desertlands just beyond. The pharaoh of Egypt was called Horus, while hisdeceased father was the new Osiris.
Several festivals during the yearwere held in Egypt, in celebration of Osiris. One, held in November,celebrated his beauty. Another, called the \"Fall of the Nile\"was a time of mourning. As the Nile receded, the Egyptians went tothe shore to give gifts and show their grief over his death. When theNile began to flood again, another festival honoring Osiris was heldwhereby small shrines were cast into the river and the priests pouredsweet water in the Nile, declaring that the god was found again.
Thename \"Osiris\" is the Greek corruption of the Egyptian name\"Asar\" (or Usar.) There are several possibilities as towhat this name means, \"the Strength of the Eye\", is one.Another is \"He Sees the Throne\". The oldest and simplestform of the name is the hieroglyph of the throne over an eye (thereare at least 158 versions of the name). At one point the firstsyllable of the name was pronounced \"Aus\" or \"Us\"and may have gained the meaning of the word usr, \"strength,might, power\". At this time the Egyptians supposed the name tomean something like the \"strength of the Eye\" (i.e., thestrength of the Sun-god RE.)
Anotherpossibility raised by an ancient hymn\'s author is that the name\"Unnefer\" (another name by which Osiris was known) comesfrom the roots un (\"to open, to appear, to make manifest\")and neferu, (\"good things\"). The author then wrote theselines in his hymn to the god, \"Thy beauty maketh itself manifestin thy person to rouse the gods to life in thy name Unnefer\". Inany case, even to the ancients, the origin of Osiris\' Egyptian nameis a mystery.
Osiriswas usually portrayed as a bearded, mummified human with green skinand wearing the atef crown. His hands emerge from the mummy wrappingsand hold the flail and crook
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EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS STATUE on Alabaster w Hieroglyphics Revel Period :
$174.99