Merenptah e Osiride
Double scene of Merenptah making offerings to Osiris. On the left the pharaoh wears the nemes with uraeus and a skirt with a lost decoration. He offers a small representation of the goddess Maat in his left hand. On the right the pharaoh again wears the nemes with uraeus. His skirt has a rich decoration with a red blue and gold belt around the waist and ends with an elaborate decoration showing two golden uraeus with sun discs. He is depicted offering jars with wine to Osiris. Osiris is depicted twice inside a golden sacellum. The top of the sacellum is decorated with a series of uraeus with solar discs above their heads. Below is an ornamental band coloured in blue, red and gold. The mummified Osiris is dressed in white with a red band around his waist and wears the Atef crown. His skin is green as a reminder of the flood and regeneration of Nature. The image of Osiris on the left holds the sceptre was while the one on the right, in addition to the sceptre, also holds the scourge and the crozier.
