Wood ( with gilding) statue of the Egyptian God Osiris,Egypt,New Kingdom,1550-1070 BC. Osiris was an Egyptian god,usually identified as the god of the afterlife,the underworld and the dead. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard,partially mummy-wrapped at the legs,wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side,and holding a symbolic crook and flail. The king and judge of the dead,the husband and brother of Isis,and father (or brother) of Horus,killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set) |