Image code: 32009

Ithyphallic Osiris and Ramesses IX offering Maat to Ptah

Left: Ithyphallic Osiris depicted leaning inside a mountain. His attire features an elaborate pearl collar and dress decorated with two falcons crossing their wings at waist height and framing a solar disc with a scarab. The god is supported by the guardian serpent Nehep. A beetle emerges from the mountain, pushing a solar disc to symbolise the birth of the sun. On the right: Ramesses IX offers the Maat to Ptah. The pharaoh wears an elaborate Atef crown with cow horns, ram's horns, sun discs, ostrich feathers and a small ram's head at the top. He wears a broad collar and a skirt of various lengths with a triangular front part and a belt with a cartouche at the waist ending in a theory of urei. In front of him a table with offerings. Ptah has green skin and holds two sceptres was. On his head is a crown with two feathers. In front of him a small figure of Maat.

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