Iconography

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Northern hemisphere / Pleiades / As a leg
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Southern hemisphere / Orion / Single figure
Astronomy and astrology / Stars / Named stars / Sirius (Alhabor, Aschere - Alpha Canis Maioris)

PRE-CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY

Egypt / Religious Iconography / Deities A-Z / Nut
Egypt / Religious Iconography / Deities A-Z / Osiris / Egyptian representations
Egypt / Religious Iconography / Deities A-Z / Sopdet
Egypt / Secular Iconography / Death and Burial / Coffins

Further details

From Asyut; showing Nut holding the heavens, the Pleiades, Osiris and Sopdet (Sirius)

Artist or creator

Ancient Egyptian

Date

2160 BC (circa) - 2025 BC 9th or 10th dynasty

Location

Hildesheim, Roemer- und-Pelizaeus-Museum

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Émile Chassinat and Charles Palanque, Une campagne de fouilles dans la nécropole d'Assiout (Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale de Caire, vol. 24), 1911, pl. 25

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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