Bronze statue of Egyptian God Osiris with crook and flail,Egypt,Late Period -Roman Period (711 BC-150 AD). 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) |