Osiris and the Goddess of the West

A painted facsimile shows the mummiform god Osiris seated on a low throne at center right, wearing a tall blue crown with plumes, facing a goddess in a dark dress and headdress at right. Hieroglyphic columns, eye motifs, and a patterned frieze fill a warm ochre field above, and a gray mound with small kneeling figures sits at lower left.

Look closer: Small kneeling figures in white and red sit at the lower left, partly hidden by the gray mound.

Artist

Hugh R. Hopgood

Date

1914–1916; original ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Medium

Tempera on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 3516 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930