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THE NAMEOF OSIRIS WRITTENj ^


von

Anthony

Leahy

Most origin

discussions and meaning2 list sign brief

of

the and R.

name in 8)

of

Osiris the

have spelling no part. various


it as

been with It forms


*spat***.

concerned the was of


In

with

its j by and
first

these has

pennant not the


fact,

(Gardiner Erman
the

in

his

discussion
characterises

played of the

listed name3
it

Worterbuch

merely

appears
and me: in a

in
very

the

early
restricted

Eighteenth
context.

Dynasty
The

but
following

only

for
examples

short
are

period
known to

1)

of Hatshepsut, modified for Tuthmosis Sarcophagus of the Eighteenth (W.C. Hayes, Royal Sarcophagi IV) 157-61, C, pi. 1935, of Sarcophagus (Ibid., 161-3, Hatshepsut V-VI) D, pi. long III after his

I Dynasty,

Princeton

2)

3)

of Tuthmosis I, made Sarcophagus in the of Tuthmosis tainly reign 53. E, pi. VII) 163-5, (Ibid., of Sarcophagus (Ibid., 165-7, Sarcophagus in: (Hayes, III Tuthmosis F, pi. VIII-XI)

death,

almost

cer

4)

5)

of Senenmut from his JEA 36, 1950, 19-23,

earlier IV. pi.

tomb, VI.)
. My draft

no.

71

1 2

I See

include for most

here

Kitchen

graphic a number

variants of valuable in: SAK

such

as

comments A, 1976,

>pL on

| a

thanks version

are of

due this

to

Dr. article.

K.

3 *

recently

Helck,

121-4.

Z&S 46, 1909, Wb I, 359.

92-5.

142

Anthony

Leahy

SAK 7

6)

A number
mut, no.

of
35 3.

examples II, found Feb. once II, Kingdom Senenmut

occur 1928, in pi. is

in 40-1) the 48). thus

the

second

"secret"

tomb

of

Senen

(BMMA part 7) It is also

mortuary

temple

of

Hatshepsut

at

Deir

el-Bahari.

(Deir Its use and the in

el-Bahari, the New of well

confined arrogation

tombs is

(whose and part

to largely to himself to Tuthmosis These

royal sarcophagi of royal pre the reign or III, are either queen Tuthmosis of to con the of

rogatives Hatshepsut what firmed first might by

and be the

attested5), to the early the that 'Deir the

chronologically of that of era1.

termed fact

el-Bahari

limits on the of

sarcophagus or Tuthmosis II, III6. of


been

not occur does rj ^ of Hatshepsut, made when she was only on that successor of Amenhotep the II, writing is presumably to be sought but
It was

Its j for
so

origin as
restricted

in why
not

a its
used

simple use
again

substitution should
until

divine
remains

determinative7,
unclear.

have
the

Late

Period,

when

it

is

used

quite

I would private inscriptions. can be fairly ance precisely a quo which terminus indicates
occurs must be.

indiscriminately that the date suggest and that established, how late an inscription

in of this

both this

royal

and

reappear a provides which it

in

The dinet the


attested

earliest Habu, ephemeral


at

example apparently Rudamun,


Thebes8.

dated

by a royal the tomb from the last


a

cartouche of of

is

a block

from

Me of

ruler

(?), Ns-tr-wy the Twenty-third


is, of

a daughter Dynasty
course, only

While

"first"

occurrence

the
the not

first
actual extensive,

that
first

we

know
instance,

of

and

may,

in

fact,
when good

be
the

considerably
extant for

later

than
is that

especially nevertheless,

documentation thinking

there

are,

reasons

the fifth

reappearance Dynasty9.

of

does

not

antedate

the

advent

of

the

Twenty

5 6 7 Gardiner, William 6, A, pi. Gardiner of of 8 A-F. RecTrav see 1972, chronology Kenneth deities Isis on Egypt, C. Hayes, I and

186-7. Royal

Cf.

Lesko,

in: of

JARCE the

noted

Sarcophagi XII-XIII. 167-8, G, pi. that the is pennant rarely 8). It is mentioned -

6, XVIIIth used as that e.g.

1967, Dynasty, a it

113-8,

esp. Princeton

114. 1935, in the the 155 names name 189, 20.

determinative is also used

R 502, (EG3, the sarcophagi

noteworthy here,

in

Hayes,

Royal

Sarcophagi,

now JE 33902. the For CXLIII block is in Cairo, 20-1, 1897, Rudamun, A. Third The Intermediate Period in Egypt Warminster Kitchen, (-TIP), on the notes and Klaus and Nubian of 322 "The Baer, Egypt: kings Libyan of Dynasties to XXVIn JNES XXII in: (o). 1973, 32, 20, 19,

1979

The

name

of

Osiris

143

The

number

of

dated

documents and it is

of

the

Third that
to

Intermediate the name


frequently

Period of Osiris
in

is tends,
contexts

relatively
because of

small,
its

unfortunate

funerary

connotations,

occur

which
of Montu

are

not
from

precisely
Deir el-Bahari1

datable,
,

such
and not

as
in

the
the

coffins
"secular**

of

the
royal

priests
inscrip

tions, the

such donation and

as

the

Karnak which

annals11 are such

and

records of

of the for

Nile

stelae constitute

characteristic valuable this form to evidence is the not

or levels12, Third Intermediate chronology. in a single It

Period13 is

its

significant, which

inscription

that however, is definitely

found

dated Dynasties Dynasty at Karnak of this III occurs the of B.C.

or Twenty-third Twenty-second common the Twenty-fifth from ly The of built touches In the chapel the date by of of Osiris the III hk3 dt

of any king of the reign and that it becomes increasing onwards. a confirmation striking In the Bubastite portion, car with inscribed the and and jj^ ^^J] | are dated out below), from occur once15. used16.

provides form1i*. and also

reappearance and the Takeloth form by victory (c. jjjg Shebitku, stela 727

Osorkon of Rudamun,

consistently forms ^jjA

extension while 21 of his

added the

Similarly, to year shows the

reign

from Piye King on the chronology a lintel

Napata, set and of

17, both ^jj^ tomb of his wife

and jj *} Peksater

on occur jjjjj at Abydos18.

Examples

door-jamb j ca also

It name early

is

surely Re or

not

coincidence in Dynasties,

that a number of

| also

appears

as of

determinative the

of Die (Ibid.,

the and Spalt fig.

Re-Harakhte

Twenty-sixth Totenstelen,

agyptischen

e.g. Gluckstadt

inscriptions Cairo T. 26/10/24/1

112),
(Ibid., Bosticco, and tive

Oxford
201, Le

E.
A. stele

3922
9905;

(Ibid.,
RdE 20, di Thebes. a lintel the

fig.
1968, epoca

- all 100)
162-4, tarda

1973,

fig. pi. no. the

109), 14a), 10),

Twenty-fifth (Peter Munro, 114 Louvre C.

from Abydos;
Florence Leningrad is

Cairo

T.
2479 1098

27/1/25/14
(Ibid.,191; (Munro, a determina 216

egiziane from on in -

fig. of

all 34) Khentamentiu also site Les

10

16) and perhaps same from the Henri Cf.

Gauthier, M.L. Bierbrier, II2, 108.

Chicago cercueils The Late

| sign 1, Fall 10, no. 1967, (Expedition on a Twenty-fifth name stela Dynasty OIM 6408 and Abydos, (El Amrah 31). pi. des de Montou, Cairo 1913. anthropoides pretres New Kingdom in Egypt, Warminster (=LNK), 1975,

Similarly, from Abydos of Wennefer

used

as

11 12 13 14

92 ff.
PM Von The Beckerath, most recent in: JARCE 5, of of in: JEA Mon. 1966, lists 43-55. of hk3 donation are 1900, and 16-30 54. and stelae based 125-34. the pi. on is the 146-9, that of Kessler, in:

collection

SAK 2,
My of in remarks the

1975,
on texts

104 n.
the

3.
Osiris dp RecTrav*22, XXI-XXVIII pi. 59, 1973, incomplete publication the photographs on Redford's report

chapel

15 16

study RecTrav Ibid.,

Leclant, of

by Legrain, Mon. Thebains, the in: chapel 1900, Leclant, 128-34.

preliminary XVIII-XXII.

22, 125-8;

Thebains,

144

Anthony

Leahy

SAK 7

on wife

objects of The the

dedicated Amun from evidence majority of this

by early for of form

Piye*s in the the

sister, period reigns of jj

Amenirdis of Kushite

I, rule and

who

was

God*s c. is 700 slight of

until

B.C.19. but in

Shabako *3 is

Shebitku and the

inscriptions increases

found, in

number of

occurrences
Taharka20.

substantially

the

reign

In in end
(i.e.

figure each of
by

1,

I have from

tabulated the beginning using


to the

the

forms of the

of

the

name

of

Osiris

current

reign the Twenty-fifth,


a cartouche)

Twenty-second dated
king. a

only
reign of

inscriptions
particular

to the Dynasty with certainty


These are

listed
unnecessarily

in

the

appendix.
long, but

The
because

period
of

of
the

time
small

thus

represented
of documents

may

seem
ex

number

tant the the

and Third forms

the

continuing Intermediate use

uncertainty Period, the it is

over

the

absolute to are,

important There as the It

of chronology establish clearly doubtless, as possible, in no omissions, but use and

in

although the table the is fact taken

I have serves that here order of

throughout to make tried to a** the illustrate does not

period. the list both

complete of range be of

occur. of the data,

should

spellings that noted a particular also not together listed

account form all and the

frequency

occurrence I have

in that, different according


intersperse

to

compress

included

of each form. variants graphic to numerical order of dynasty


the contemporary monarchs21;

I have and
an

the

have

attempted
on those

kings to
lines

arrangement

would

not

affect

the

pattern.

17 18

Urk. Cairo is the

Ill, JE it

ll.18; 32022-3;

46.116. Amelineau, is Abydos here dead For the 1895-6; followed died and Z'AS by before 43, 1906, 49.Since whereas that the of name Piye 715). see name 1973, of from from was Kar Memphis, objects I at of For

Peksater's not, clear

father, Kashta, is that probable distinction RdE in: read as between 8, 1951,

m3c-hrwy

Peksater 224-8. see

Yoyotte, formerly 24-5. Kitchen, jj ^ nak, ASAE of with 20 Medinet

living as Piye

Piankhy, table

references in: JNES I from ASAE this

c. before (i.e. Piye on Kushite monuments, kings correct of the the reading cited in:JNES 32, by Baer, 1973, several 7, 1906, bronze 20 sites: 44; was and of (m). Examples statue bronze found contained Amenirdis

19

TIP, occur CG 565; 1902,

480, on

13; of

Baer, Amenirdis from cache

32,

monuments fragment 12 the

statue 142,

3, Theban the

Armant, in which 8, 1951, In II.

probably

origin cartouches

RdE in: (Yoyotte, of Psammetichus

no. 10) 218, the tomb-chapel is found

21

on the other Habu, hand, only jg to in addition the monuments cited in See, career of Montuemhat whose lasted from the I tichus 60. 139-40. Leclant, Montouemhat, For the of the latter part contemporaneity

(RecTrav 4-18). 1901, 23, some of the appendix, inscriptions of Taharka that of Psamme into reign 169. see of Dynasty 22 and Dynasty 23, the

Kichen,

TIP,

146.

1979

The

name

of

Osiris

145

Fig.

(a)

(b)

(c)

^
Sheshonk Osorkon I I x x

^
x

i
x

M"
x x

fi

(d)

Sheshonk Osorkon
Harsiese

x II II x x x x
x

Takeloth *Sheshonk
Pamai x

II xxx x III
x

x x

(e)

*Sheshonk Pedubast I Iuput Osorkon Takeloth


Rudamun Bocchoris

V x x x I x III x x III
x x x

x x

(f)

*Piye Shabako Shebitku


*Taharka

xxx xxx x x
xxx

are No examples attested IV or Iuput II. Osorkon fied pi. (a) Osorkon, am XIII. Graphic the spelling

for the reigns On two objects A$ jj , Jj^2^ is used

of Takeloth the bearing - PSBA 13,

I, Sheshonk IV, name of an unspeci 1890-1, 36; Koptos,

variants

, "^^Jl

^^

variants X (b) Graphic


(c) (d) Graphic variant -*= XXXV. iliiiij^^l of p. 233,
a

, 3 , jITS H
<3 *. ( in the EL occurs I occurs w in the no.
derivation

,Jf" ^j$, ,
tomb of Osorkon

f,
II -

, Td
Montet,

The orthography pi. Tanis,I, A cryptic as QtjQ (ASAE


tempting

(e)

form a writing 1943,


to

on

a donation of Osiris must


the

stela is represent
usual value

from attested s

Atfieh. at and
stp on

name

Edfu it is
the

43,

2 20).*^^
from

suggest

acrophonic sportive ciple. 7

principle. writing of is, *, course, of

't't't Similarly, rmt (BIFAO 43, the hieratic

as

r may

derive on the

from

the prin

1945,

108)

same

determinative^-.

(f) *

The in:

o Jj on BM 24429 form MDAIK 30, 109. 1974, hieratic here. writings

may

be

scribal

error,

but

cf.

Osing,

of Examples are included

on

stone

monuments

from

these

reigns

146

Anthony

Leahy

SAK 7

It

should

be

clear their

from

the

appended

list provenance

that are

both

the

types

of

in

scriptions to nullify culiarities. inscription this form

and any

geographical of

distortion In view

produced by the multiplicity does at seems not that to years common, form that I, it and the stelae indicate at and Memphis. gradual in

typological of forms can be

sufficiently or regional in used but use, to no prove the

varied pe single that

_ __^

in was

which not

jj ^ current here the

occur

evidence was after jj nasty. the of the

presented in introduced became as It the is of

particular me sufficient of Kushite

time, to rule only of

cumulative that and it there

establish in Egypt

early

increasingly predominant noteworthy Psammetichus preservation, so Serapeum seems common origin to not

although the is course scarcely this that or as

gradually the

replacing Dy before

attested may it be occurs

Twenty-sixth at Memphis in

reign differential seventy was

while

fact dated that

result the part one of on only years B.C. 20-1 this justified for this of spell in ortho

or

ascribed late thus as

to 644

Psammetichus ing still

I22

We are northward

assuming
graphy .

a Theban

probably movement

I have Third detail tention the


since

so

far

refrained Period, and all

from

any more

discussion has recently by

of

the been

Intermediate by Kitchen23 to reiterate is referred

which much the

chronology studied It of is

of in not (for is
to

the

great my in which necessajv


some ex

briefly

Baer24.

possible
as a

permutations work)
dating

data

reader
the

to
of

Kitchen's
Jcj

but
criterion

some

comment
depends

usefulness

tent Since for has

on

able being the publication II

to

an give of TIP,

absolute Kitchen

date has by in Iuput

to

the

Iuput set forth The

independently his revised of a long

suggested chronology for reign

accepted25 Bierbrier26 his II

reign the and

of long

Rudamun. reign and

Gomaa27 to

introduction may derive

Bierbrier*s from a

LNK2B.

idea

support

22

M.

Malinine-G. Paris of note note 61, these, 8. 8. 1975, Gomaa, x.

Posener-J. 1968, only Nos. on no.

Memphis, 23 24 25 and, See See JEA

Vercoutter, 180-252 212 does

are

Catalogue or dated a writing

des with

steles the

du to

attributed

Serapeum Psammetichus occur.

de I,

pennant

26
27 28

272 Die

and

in:

Bierbrier, Fiirstentiimer

LNK, des

x. Wiesbaden 78-80.

LNK,
Faruk 83-4. LNK,

100.
libyschen Deltas, 1974,

1979

The

name

of

Osiris

147

consideration The Bubastite

of

the

scenes depicts dates Osorkon was of

in

section which year clearly 23

chapel III Osorkon it III. to the

the

of and period

Osiris Takeloth of of as

hk3

dt III

at in

Karnak. a re

lationship i.e. after once the or

their

co-regency, occurs

The

cartouche by Legrain the that upon I is not the

Rudamun

and twice?) (perhaps rest of the building29. at least of his Takeloth accession, III.

regarded This implies hard Amenirdis

with contemporary of Rudamun, reign brief in independent the Buba

followed Since

very

depicted senior I, her Shepenwepet colleague, not at that the time been had yet is, adopted case was built, 19 of the Wadi Gasus in in which the year the chapel - Osorkon Ill's nine to cannot of these refer any kings scription31 III nor Rudamun Takeloth and neither teenth would have year passed - and can to so high a date refer would have reached II, Iuput only reign stite of the part seem it would chapel30 she that whereas as The those Osorkon main fer of
proves

already difference of

envisaged between (c. is of this III 28 years


co-regency

by

Bierbrier32. Kitchen's is reduced III33 is revised when applied is that II, five
years

dates Kitchen!s to Nile

(c. Baer's level

757-754

B.C.)

and that

Baer s3-ist

772-?) Osorkon

demonstration

result to at

identification and not Osorkon of


least

The chronology. re text 13 must a reign and


III and

Osorkon least
a

which

instead
of at

the
five

the former gives allowed him by Baer,


between Osorkon

Takeloth vised Baer,

III3**. chronology as revised

For of by

convenience the

I have

tabulated

below

Kitchen's with that

re of

Dynasty Twenty-third together Wente in the of Kitchen's light

arguments35:

29

RecTrav

30

JEA 133-4 and 22, 1900, ones in the of the third painted a further same indication time, of Rudamun reign statement that in in PM (g), Amenirdis scene this of the addition or III II2, and 205 Osorkon Mon. second the (5)

The cartouche 23. 1973, 59, room which were apparently of Amenirdis that the adoption followed are III by depicted Baer, in: JNES is

of all

Rudamun added I postdates 1973, at

is

one the the

The

32, quite

king the is

remains

the

exactly Kushite Takeloth

(Leclant, erased as same in (Leclant, Osorkon III

Thebains, are uraeus

together XXV-XXVI) pi. visible while of Shebitku

representation

is clearly of the garb on the facade quite chapel unlike (JEA

24 18, The wrong. Shebitku the of that 59, king the of 1973,

pi. op.cit., as depicted

and XXII-XXIII) the in original

31 32 33
34

pi.

XIX.XXI).

Kitchen, TIP, LNK, 100. 73. TIP,


Cf. Von Beckerath,

143-5.

35

in:

JARCE

5,

1966,

45,

no.

13.

JNES 35,

1976,

276.

148

Anthony

Leahy

SAK 7

Fig.

Baer/ -

Wente

Bierbrier/Kitchen 793 803 787 759 757 754 720 715 can in to

Pedubast Sheshonk Osorkon Takeloth Iuput The fore middle


740-30

I IV III III II

828 803 797 774 767 Rudamun -

803 797 767 767 ?

818 793 787 764 757 Iuput I

804

ff.

754

or

difference be said 760's


B.C.,

between with or some 750's

the

two

is

thus that

only

ten

years reigned would

and

it

there the about

confidence B.C. His

Rudamun tomb
per

briefly thus date

daughter's
years

allowing

twenty-five

generation36.

Even

as

genealogies plored unspecified


ally been

a date imprecise of the Third here, but it may

as

this

has

some

immediate These

results cannot

for all

the be ex

Intermediate be noted be
jta

Period.

Takeloth,
assumed ,

cannot
since

that>Ir-b3stt-wd3-nfwi a daughter of Takeloth


occurs on her coffins

of an daughter as has usu II,


which are now

in c. of bility

the 800 this

Louvre38. B.C.39, form. already


of and

A generation a full 60-70 She must

after years

the before be

death the

of

Takeloth known

II

would

be

earliest

therefore by
Takeloth's mentioned

envisaged
Rudamun, Osorkon

Kitchen40,
brother. on a

a daughter of Takeloth be a cousin and thus


For coffin the from same Deir reason, el-Bahari41

III,

example a possi of the


the Dx and

daughter ist-nsyt

CG 4103542
not an earlier

respectively
king of

must
that

have
name.

been

offspring

of

Takeloth

III

and

A few those only 120

isolated assigned out five

to

year

by their 252 recently of the V or 37 of Sheshonk

Serapeum to them

stelae

should editors43.

also

be

given

dates with attribution and no.

later |

than occur of no. to on

published 6 of year

Spellings - the Bocchoris

212

36 37

For the See

as the 25 years Third Intermediate the references

average Period, in Kitchen, 3

span see

of

generation n. JNES ff. (Kees).^ bubastite set out LNK, 472.

in

ancient xvi. 116.

Egypt,

or

at

least

in

Bierbrier, 329, in: 141

38
39

TIP, and Baer, and de

ASAE 54,
Kitchen,

1956,
TIP,

27.
467, 14 table ff. 32, 1973, 11.

*
41 **2 43

TIP,
ASAE 54, Alexandre 1913. The logue

290.
1956, Moret, (Bruyere) Sarcophages the ... editors l'epoque are well a in l'epoque their saite, introduction Cairo Cata

problems facing des steles

VII-XV.

1979

The

name

of

Osiris

149

years
later

20-21
than

of
the

Psammetichus
envisaged

I may
terminus

well
a quo.

be

correct
However,

as
three

those
of

dates
the

are
stelae

have date third loth very not it of that to Apis date. (i.e. does be a

been tentatively assigned higher of 10 + x years but no cartouche, of the Twenty-second Apis II. As the editors point since doubtful,, stela and may be suggested 14 of Shabako can in be the not that only even no. Dynasty, out, come the monument from

dates. was

No. assigned

20,

which

bears

a to Take is II is the

apparently existence which the to

by Mariette 14 of year of such an Apis of Takeloth In view burial, No. 175 clear. to its

mentions Serapeum. a later

this,

may year

20 belongs and

postulated

little similar of No. that not at the 45,

discerned to no.

by Vercoutter'*4. =ij even || || assigned of

that perhaps is so worn It the appears first

is

not

style

173,

by Mariette may bears to well be the

Twenty-sixth assigned year 2 of all resemble suggest striking of

to

and this Dynasty, the fourth Apis is undated, Pamai) those actually as none of

correct

dated these

Twenty-second Dynasty, no cartouche, and 2 of Pamai year (nos. are dated and enable be which would

I would 22-5). none have any them used their to as be

that, stylistic

stelae

characteristics to a particular context but established Osiris $oes Takeloth of King not III Piye.

by assigned evidence dating from the

analogy in this criterion of

dating

cannot Apis, they should rather derive - that here the ortho reappear and until i.e.

for the graphy jj ^ the tion after royal 740-30 B.C., during

name

brothers the reign

Rudamun,

a genera in about

44

Kush 8,

1960,

62-76.

15o

Anthony

Leahy

SAK

APPENDIX The monuments fig. of this on which the period are is based, listed Dynasty Sheshonk I stela Dedication Alabaster block endowment Temple Tanis Canopic jars JEA 27, Brugsch, RecTrav Montet, X-XII 1941, 83-95, pi. 949 817. Thes., 1. 4 35, 1909, 31, XLIX Tanis, IIIlpl. 22 name below. of Osiris occurs, and

on which

1 above

Abydos Memphis Ahnas el-Medineh

Osorkon Karnak Thebes Abydos Abydos


The

I statues Private Stela of Iwelot, son of Osorkon I stela Private of Cenotaph Iwapti son of Sheshonk I
of the Iwelot exact and dates Iwapti of are their

CG 42189. 42216 BM 1224 - Guide (Sculpture) no. 777 215, JEA 53, 63-8 1967, VII. BIFAO 75, 1975, pi.
included deaths being under Osorkon unknown.

1909, IX

monuments

for

convenience,

Sheshonk

II Tanis Coffin Montet, Tanis, II, pi. XVII

Osorkon

II Hathor Private Usurped Festival Tanis Tomb chapel statues statue hall PM II2, 203-445 42225 CG 42213. Ahnas IV, Naville, el-Medineh, pi. C. 1 (BM 1146) VII. Naville, Festival-Hall, pi. X. XXII XXIV-XXVI. I, pi. Tanis, Montet, XXXI-XXXV 17 Ibid., 58, fig. 1-8 JEA 46, 1960, 3-23, pi.

Karnak Karnak Tell el-Moqdam Bubastis

Tanis Tanis
Harsiese

Canopic Statue

of

jars king

Medinet

Habu

Sarcophagus

Medinet

Habu

V,

10

45

I who

owe was

the

name of of the reading me a to send kind enough reading >J_ ]ff given of JL

Osiris latex by

in copy

this of Mon.

to chapel the relevant Thebains, writing

Mr.

CI. part

Traunecker of the is capel inscrip erroneous, is JiNl

tion. being

The

Leclant, . The only

275 in

E., the

a misinterpretation

other

1979

The

name

of

Osiris

151

Takeloth Karnak

II Bubastite Portal at Karnak, Reliefs and Inscriptions OIP 74, III, 18, col. 1954, pi. 3. 13 cols. 33; pi. 21, 153 ff. ASAE 54, 1956, Montet, Tanis, I, 83, fig. 27

Memphis

Tomb of Sheshonk, son of Osorkon II Ushabtis Tanis III Bubastite portal statue Private stela Donation stela Donation stela Donation Tomb Tanis Donation Donation stela stela

Sheshonk Karnak Karnak Heliopolis Mendes Busiris

Delta West

Delta

col. 15 Reliefs 22, ...III, pi. CG 42232 61 ASAE 16, 1916, 59-67 JARCE 8, 1969-70, 41-5 RecTrav 1913, 35, XXIX. III, Montet, Tanis, pi. XXXIII XXXI. OIM 10511, unpub. Chicago Vostoka Moscow 5647; Epigraphica 1951 , 95-8 5,

Pamai

Memphis

Serapeum

stelae

Malinine-Posener-Vercoutter, du des stales Catalogue nos. 2 2-5 de Memphis,

S6rap6um

Sheshonk Atfieh Memphis

V Donation Serapeum stelae stelae JEA 6, 1920, ... Catalogue 11) and 31-3. 56-7, nos. 35-42 VII pi. 28 (Year 26. 37) (Year

Dynasty Pedubast Karnak


CG same safely 42227 man be does as the assigned not

23

I Private
actually owner of to the

statues
bear a

CG 42226-7
cartouche which is but dated as to its owner Pedubast, is it the can

CG 42226, same reign.

Iuput Tell
The

I el-Moqdam
attribution of

Door
this

hinge
object to the

RecTrav
first

30,
Iuput

1908,
is

202
tentative see

Kitchen,

TIP,

98.

152

Anthony

Leahy

SAK

Osorkon Karnak

III Chapel hk3 Karnak Chapel Private Scarab K3mcm of Osiris dt RecTrav 22, B Chamber PM II2, 223, 42 CG 42222-4. ASAE 21,1921, 1900, U; 42229 25 129, LD Text III, III,

Karnak Tell el-Moqdam Takeloth Karnak III

statues of mother mry-Mwt

Chapel hk3 dt Abydos Private Statue Abydos


identification TIP, 77. of

of

Osiris

stela

RecTrav chamber 1900, 22, 130, B and C chamber 132, 172-5 RecTrav 15, 1893, 2 XXIV, Abydos,III, pi.
Takeloth as Takeloth III, see

For Kitchen,

the

Usermaatre

Rudamun

Karnak Medinet
The view tomb of

Habu*
of the his brevity

of Osiris Chapel hk3 dt Tomb of daughter


daughter of certainly his reign, postdates but it

RecTrav RecTrav
the is listed

22, 19,
reign here

1900, 1897,
of for

134, 20-1,

Wall

CXLIII
in

Rudamun, convenience.

Dynasty Bocchoris
Memphis Serapeum stelae

24

Catalogue

...

nos.

92-7.

101

Dynasty Piye Napata Abydos* Dakhla Shabako Thebes* Memphis


The is relevance an accurate of the copy of

25

Victory Tomb of Donation

stela wife stela

Urk. Ill, Amelineau, JEA 54,

and 46.116 11.18 1895-6, Abydos 165-72 1968,

52

Private Esna Naos Memphite

statue Theology
Theology" text.

Leclant, CG 70007 ZAS 39,


is perhaps

Sacerdoces, 1902, 39-54

17,

pi.

"Memphite an earlier

debatable,

if

it

1979

The

name

of

Osiris

153

Piye-Shabako The objects of Amenirdis I listed in note 19.

Shebitku Karnak Thebes * * Chapel hk3 dt private of Osiris RecTrav Leclant, n. 3.


slightly w b priest of later the

22, Mon.

1909,

126-7 269,

stela

(Edinburgh
than Good the God

ThSbains, 444)
reign Shebitku, of

The

Edinburgh as

stela the owner

is

Shebitku, m3Q-hrw. Taharka

probably a was

Karnak

of Osiris Chapel Wennefer hry-ib


p3->lSd

Leclant, 15 figIbid., Ibid., Ibid., pi. pi.

Mon.Thfcbains, LXIX-LXX VIII-X pi.

44,

Karnak* Karnak* Karnak* Karnak* Karnak* Thebes*


Memphis

nb bnh
Chapel p3 dd Statues

of OsirisChapel nb nh Ptah of Osiris Chapel of Osiris nh of Pesdimen of Pesshuper Ramose


stelae

100,

LXII-LXIII

Statues Tomb of
Serapeum

Leclant, Sacerdoces, 45-66, VIII-XV pi. XVI-XXII Ibid., 75-83, pi. Mon Thfcbains, Leclant, pi. LXXXVI
Catalogue ..., 125.127-8

The j*^

asterisk occurs.

indicates

the

inscriptions

in

which

the

spelling

Postscript Since lated of


I, dicate

writing example Aat,


147 that on J

Queen
fig.

an apparently iso I have noted article, completely a Middle a on is context. false This door Kingdom j^in of Amenemhat in: wife III, Dahshour, published by De Morgan, this of
p. "^ was .101. always If De a Morgan's potential copy writing is correct, of the then name of it may Osiris, in

but
actual

it

does
usage.

not

affect

the

argument

put

forward

here

regarding

its

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