dwellerinthelibrary:A scene from the Book of the Earth in the…



dwellerinthelibrary:

A scene from the Book of the Earth in the tomb of Queen and Pharaoh Tawosret or Tausret. The artist, Ippolito Rosellini, labelled the winged figure “the spirit of Khnum”, presumably based on its ram head. However, Joshua Aaron Roberson in The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth calls it a “Ram-headed Solar Bird”; he cites Erik Hornung’s The Valley of the Kings, which describes it as a combination of the sun-god’s night and day forms. Inscriptions on the same scene from a different tomb identify it as the Egyptian king in the form of Osiris. That’s a lot of symbolism packed into a single figure.

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