A corn mummy with a wax mask of Osiris, Ptolemaic Dynasty, Archaeological Museum of Kraków
A corn mummy or germinating Osiris[1] is an Ancient Egyptian sculpture of Osiris that contained germinated grain seeds, commonly wheat or barley.[2][3][4] The rest of the mummy was made up of other materials such as wax, sand and earth.[2][3] They were fitted with masks most commonly made of wax but sometimes silver.[5] The mummies were provided with wooden coffins.[2][3]
Germinating Osiris, Late Period, Metropolitan Museum of Art
They seem to have been buried as part of certain festivals such as Khoiak.[2][3] They were also buried in tombs as part of funerary paraphernalia, with a notable example being found in the tomb of Horemheb, KV57, in the Valley of the Kings.[6]
A cornmummy or germinating Osiris is an Ancient Egyptian sculpture of Osiris that contained germinated grain seeds, commonly wheat or barley. The rest...
throat were filled with fresh air. In art, Khonsu is typically depicted as a mummy with the symbol of childhood, a sidelock of hair, as well as the menat necklace...
classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
seven "gold, faience, carnelian and lapis lazuli" bracelets found on the mummy of Shoshenq II. The Wedjat "was intended to protect the king [here] in the...
Maat, in the Hall of Two Truths. This is why hearts were left in Egyptian mummies while their other organs were removed, as the heart (called "ib") was seen...
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Island. Khnum on the details of the sarcophagus of the mummy from the Perpignan Museum. The mummy is a priest-scribe of the temple of Amun-Re from the 21st...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
last stages of the flooding of the Nile, and so with the germination of corn, she became associated with the final stages of childbirth. This association...
"Protecting Pets and Cleaning Crocodiles: The Animal Mummy Project". Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt. Cairo: The American University in...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
lizards on small reliquaries and amulets closer to the Late Period. Animal mummy § Miscellaneous animals List of solar deities Solar myths Wilkinson 2003...
Land of Manu The Indestructibles Symbols and objects Ankh Atef Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Crown of justification Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian...
The curse of the pharaohs or the mummy's curse is a curse alleged to be cast upon anyone who disturbs the mummy of an ancient Egyptian, especially a pharaoh...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
wrappings of the mummy. During this period, the decoration of human-shaped coffins placed the four sons near the abdomen of the mummy rather than distributing...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
role as a goddess of weaving, she was associated with the wrappings of mummies. In some ancient Egyptian creation myths, Neith was identified as the mother...
Symbols and objects Aani Abtu Ankh Atef Atet Book of Thoth Cartouche Cornmummy Crook and flail Deshret Djed Egyptian obelisk Egyptian pool Eye of Horus...
enlivening milk to the dead, and in the tyet amulets that were often placed on mummies to ensure that Isis's power would shield them from harm. Late funerary...
of the later triple persona, though his symbol is given as a hawk-headed mummy holding an ankh, which does at least indirectly suggest the connection....
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