Open AccessSome Remarks to the Semantics of Image of Deity on the Coffin of Sepi III (Cairo CG 28083).
Author(s) -
Mykola Tarasenko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eikón imago
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2254-8718
DOI - 10.5209/eiko.74148
Subject(s) - coffin , iconography , art , spell , face (sociological concept) , osiris , philosophy , literature , ancient history , art history , history , theology , archaeology , linguistics , botany , biology
The problem of the iconography of a unique image of a deity drawn on the Middle Kingdom rectangular coffin of Sepi III (Cairo CG 28083; B1C; Deir el-Bersha; CT VI, 386) is discussed in the article. It is possible that the god is the first known image of the syncretic double god Re-Osiris. The deity (with a head unusually for Egyptian iconography unfolded in full face) is shown sitting on a throne with the inscription “millions (of years)”. The image of this god could be a visual display of the eschatological plot described in Spell 1130 of the Coffin Texts (the union of Atum(-Re) and Osiris after destruction of the Universe) at the end in the Book of Two Ways, that is represented on the bottom of Sepi’s coffin.