The Name of Osiris Written [unknown] Author(s): Anthony Leahy Reviewed work(s): Source: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Bd. 7 (1979), pp. 141-153 Published by: Helmut Buske Verlag GmbH Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25150051 . Accessed: 04/05/2012 10:37 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
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THE NAMEOF OSIRIS WRITTENj ^ von
Leahy
Anthony
Most
and
origin (Gardiner
in
Erman the
of
discussions meaning2 list sign
his
a
in
and
and
in
the
have
the
spelling no part.
these has
8)
Osiris
played of the
early
as
it
context.
The
with
concerned
with
the
its
pennant
j
It
was
not
listed
forms
of
the
name3
In
*spat***.
but
Dynasty
Eighteenth
been
various
characterises
restricted
very
of
discussion
merely
in
appears
name
R.
brief
Worterbuch
the
only
short
first
period
are
examples
following
it
fact,
a
for
by and
to
known
me:
1)
of Hatshepsut, modified for Tuthmosis Sarcophagus of the Eighteenth (W.C. Hayes, Royal Sarcophagi IV) 157-61, C, pi. 1935,
2)
of Sarcophagus (Ibid., 161-3,
3)
of Tuthmosis I, made Sarcophagus in the of Tuthmosis tainly reign 53. E, pi. VII) 163-5, (Ibid.,
4)
of Sarcophagus (Ibid., 165-7,
5)
Sarcophagus in: (Hayes,
1 2
3 *
I See
most
for
such
variants of
Helck,
92-5.
his
almost
death,
cer
III Tuthmosis F, pi. VIII-XI)
graphic a number
recently
after
long III
of Senenmut from his JEA 36, 1950, 19-23,
Z&S 46, 1909, Wb I, 359.
Princeton
Hatshepsut V-VI) D, pi.
here
include
Kitchen
I Dynasty,
as
comments
valuable in:
earlier IV. pi.
SAK
A,
1976,
>pL on
| a
121-4.
tomb, VI.) . My draft
no.
thanks version
71
are
due of
this
to
Dr. article.
K.
142
6)
A number
7)
of
no.
mut,
occur
examples
SAK 7
Leahy
in
the
second
tomb
"secret"
Senen
of
35 3.
Feb.
(BMMA part
II,
It
found
is
Anthony
also
1928,
once
40-1) the
in
mortuary
of
temple
at
Hatshepsut
Deir
el-Bahari.
el-Bahari,
(Deir Its use
in
the
and
New
the
tombs
of
is
rogatives
well
Hatshepsut
and
what
might
be
by
the
firmed
II,
fact
of
as
j for so
Late
Period,
to
presumably
used
first
the
actual
first
extensive,
reappearance
8
know
of
instance, there
on
but
why
its
was
not
used
how
an
late
con
either
the
the
queen
of
Tuthmosis
of
substitution
simple use
have
should
the
until
again
indiscriminately that the date suggest and that established,
in
both
of
this
and
royal
reappear a provides
this
in
inscription
it
which
A
last a
of
ruler
of
and
in
may,
^
be
when
the
antedate
only
later
than is
documentation
reasons
good
not
of
Dynasty course,
considerably extant
the
Me
from
a daughter
of
is,
fact,
nevertheless,
does
(?), Ns-tr-wy the Twenty-third
occurrence
"first"
a block
is
cartouche
especially
are,
of
for
of
advent
that
thinking
the
Twenty
Dynasty9.
5
7
the While
we
that
the
6
sought
to
are
limits
quite
by a royal the tomb from
Rudamun, Thebes8.
not
fifth
a
in
It
dated
apparently
at
the
be
unclear.
is
it
example
ephemeral
attested
These
of
reign or III,
be.
Habu,
the
era1.
determinative7,
remains
earliest
dinet
el-Bahari
the
Tuthmosis
writing
I would private inscriptions. can be fairly ance precisely a quo which terminus indicates
The
to
chronologically of that of
part
the
divine
when
must
arrogation
royal sarcophagi of royal pre
not occur does rj ^ of Hatshepsut, made when she was only on that successor of Amenhotep the II,
restricted
occurs
to largely to himself
confined
and
'Deir
that
is
origin
been
thus
(whose
the
termed
sarcophagus or Tuthmosis II, Its
is
Kingdom Senenmut
attested5), to the early
first
III6.
48).
pi.
Gardiner, William 6, A, pi. Gardiner of
deities
of
Isis
Egypt,
186-7.
Hayes, I and
Royal
C.
noted on
Cf.
Lesko,
JARCE
in: of
the
Sarcophagi XII-XIII. 167-8, G, pi. that the is pennant rarely
R 502, (EG3, the sarcophagi
8).
It
is
mentioned
6, XVIIIth used
here,
Dynasty, as
that
noteworthy e.g.
113-8,
1967,
a it
Hayes,
determinative is
also
Royal
114.
esp. Princeton
used
155
1935, in
the
names
in
the
name
Sarcophagi,
189,
20.
A-F. RecTrav see
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,
Kenneth
1972, chronology
-
19,
1979
The
of
number
of
are
of
as
such
the
the
and
Karnak
which
of built
by
shows the
9
of
his
It
is
surely Re or
early
Oxford
(Ibid.,
201, Le
and
16) and perhaps same from the Henri Cf.
12 13 14
15 16
in
a number
Dynasties,
e.g. Gluckstadt
E.
3922
(Ibid.,
A.
9905;
RdE
stele
from on
also Les
the
Chicago cercueils The
Late
forms
and
^jjA
a
lintel
as
appears
of
109),
fig.
- all 100) 162-4, tarda
14a),
Similarly, from Abydos of Wennefer
10),
out
below),
Florence
the
occur
of
the and
Twenty-fifth (Peter Munro, 114 Louvre C.
Die
Spalt
(Ibid.,
T.
fig.
27/1/25/14
2479
(Ibid.,191;
1098
Leningrad
from
door-jamb j ca also
determinative
Cairo
used16.
dated
the
from Abydos; pi. no.
are
|
Napata, set and
once15.
^^J]
jj^
of
Examples
inscriptions Cairo T. 26/10/24/1
epoca
and
from Piye King on the chronology
| also
1968, di
Thebes. a lintel
in -
site
Gauthier, M.L. Bierbrier,
20,
confirmation striking In the Bubastite portion, car with inscribed the
consistently
1973,
It
chronology. in a single
a
of
fig.
egiziane
all 34) Khentamentiu
fig. of
tive
that
coincidence
Totenstelen,
Bosticco,
11
a
its
found
also
on occur jjjjj at Abydos18.
and jj *} Peksater
or levels12, Third Intermediate
the
form1i*.
the
inscrip
of any king of the reign and that it becomes increasing onwards.
occurs
of
royal
the
and
B.C.
727
(c.
reign
not
this
priests
Nile
for
provides
III
stela
victory
Twenty-sixth
112),
of
jjjg Shebitku,
by
Re-Harakhte
agyptischen
10
the
17, both ^jj^ tomb of his wife
name
Karnak
form
added
while 21
at
the
of
of
tends, contexts
in
"secular**
not
is
to
Dynasty
Takeloth
the
the
of
form
Osiris
frequently
evidence
dated
of
coffins
records
Dynasties
dt
and
Rudamun,
and
this
reappearance III
extension
Similarly, to year
hk3
the
of
of
the
Osiris
Osorkon
touches In
of
chapel the date
the in
valuable
or Twenty-third Twenty-second common the Twenty-fifth from ly The
as
characteristic
such
that however, is definitely
significant,
inscription
are
occur
is
Period
name
the
to
not
annals11
which
constitute
and
,
Intermediate
that
such
el-Bahari1
stelae
donation
Period13 is
Deir
Third
unfortunate
datable,
143
Osiris
connotations,
precisely
from
tions,
is
funerary
not
Montu
it
and
its
of
the
of
documents
small,
relatively because
which
dated
name
The
(Munro,
is
used
as
a
is
that
of
Kessler,
216
determina
| 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,
92 ff. PM
108.
II2,
Von
Beckerath, most recent
The
SAK 2,
1975,
My of
remarks
in
Leclant, of
the
study RecTrav Ibid.,
on
JARCE
in:
104 n. the
chapel
by Legrain, Mon. Thebains, the in: chapel
22,
of
1900, Leclant,
43-55.
1966, lists
of
donation
stelae
in:
3.
texts
125-8;
5,
collection of in: JEA
Osiris
hk3
dp
59,
1973,
16-30
128-34. Mon.
Thebains,
are
54.
on
based
1900, and
RecTrav*22, XXI-XXVIII pi.
and
125-34. the pi.
the 146-9,
preliminary XVIII-XXII.
incomplete publication the photographs on Redford's report
144
on
dedicated
objects
Amun
of
wife
in
but
from
The
B.C.19.
the
by for of
majority of this
occurrences
the
Amenirdis of
period of
reigns
inscriptions
form
SAK 7
Leahy
sister,
Piye*s in the
early
evidence
Anthony
*3 is
jj
increases
and
until
700
Shebitku
is
slight
the
and
found, in
substantially
God*s c.
rule
Kushite
Shabako
was
who
I,
the
number
of
of
reign
Taharka20.
In in
figure each
end
of
(i.e.
reign the Twenty-fifth, a
in
tant the
Third
the
forms
in
use
although the table
I have
the
that
taken
the
intersperse
18
not
Urk. Cairo is
Ill, JE
not, clear
Yoyotte,
19
21
are,
It
should
I have
data,
8,
TIP,
480,
3, Theban the
is
1902,
on
dead
but
no
together listed
also not
use
in
account and
all
the
the
attempted on
arrangement
and
form
kings to
those
lines
see
13;
monuments
of
fragment 12 the
142,
the
living as Piye
references in:
Baer,
from cache
RdE in: (Yoyotte, of Psammetichus
JNES I
Amenirdis
8,
1951, In II.
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
146.
32,
from
Armant, in which
43,
of
that
whereas
name
the
49.Since
1906,
m3c-hrwy
c. before (i.e. Piye on Kushite monuments, kings correct of the the reading cited in:JNES 32, by Baer,
and For
224-8.
1951,
table
statue
origin cartouches
TIP,
a particular
have
Z'AS by before
died
Peksater
Piankhy,
Medinet
Kichen,
of
I have
an
1895-6; followed
Abydos here
between
Kitchen,
occur
be
spellings that noted
omissions,
pattern.
Amelineau,
distinction RdE in:
CG 565;
doubtless, as possible,
included
and
monarchs21;
father, Kashta, is that probable
it
of chronology establish clearly
as
complete of range
ex
documents
46.116.
ll.18; 32022-3;
as
with 20
the
read
of
the
contemporary
formerly 24-5.
jj ^ nak, ASAE
to
There
occurrence
of
frequency
absolute
important
the
occur.
not
the
period. the list both
compress
affect
Peksater's the
is
of
seem
may
represented
number
are
These
king.
thus
small
of each form. variants graphic to numerical order of dynasty
according
17
to
order
time
the
it the
to the Dynasty with certainty
dated
particular
over
Period,
does
the
of
of
uncertainty
illustrate
a**
here
in that, different
to
of
current
Osiris
Twenty-second a
of
throughout to make tried
serves
fact
would
because
the
and
period
of
name
inscriptions
reign
The but
long,
continuing Intermediate
is
the
the
of
the
only
using to
appendix.
unnecessarily
forms of
beginning
cartouche)
the
the
tabulated the
from
by
listed
I have
1,
ASAE this
1973, several 7, 1906, bronze
20
44; was
found
For see
name 1973, of
Examples statue
from
Kar
bronze
from
Memphis,
sites:
no. 10) 218, the tomb-chapel is
(m).
of
Piye 715).
found
and
was
contained of
Amenirdis
probably objects I at
(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
1979
The
name
of
Osiris
145
1
Fig.
(a)
^ (d)
x
x II II x x x x II xxx x III x
x x
V x x x I x III x x III
*Sheshonk Pedubast I Iuput Osorkon Takeloth
x
xx
x
Rudamun
x
Bocchoris
x
xxx
*Piye Shabako Shebitku
xxx x x
*Taharka
xxx
are No examples attested IV or Iuput II. Osorkon
(a)
x
x
Pamai
fied pi.
the
Osorkon, am XIII.
for the reigns On two objects
spelling
variants
Graphic
jj
, Jj^2^
Graphic
(d)
The orthography pi. Tanis,I,
(e)
A cryptic as QtjQ
form
43,
acrophonic sportive ciple.
(f) *
The in:
p.
233, a
suggest
writing of is,
of
*, course,
no.
hieratic here.
^^
13,
36;
1890-1,
,Jf" ^j$, ,
the
on
tomb
of
2 20).*^^
Koptos,
, Td
f,
writings
be
on
a
stela
from
is
s
represent usual
value
as
r may
derive
108)
at
is
on
from the
Edfu it
and stp
on
Montet,
Atfieh.
attested
the
1945,
-
II
Osorkon
Osiris must
from
may
of
a donation
name
't't't Similarly, rmt (BIFAO 43, the hieratic
o Jj on BM 24429 form MDAIK 30, 109. 1974,
of Examples are included
, "^^Jl
derivation
principle. 7
- PSBA
in
I occurs w in the
iliiiij^^l of
1943, to
tempting
used
I, Sheshonk IV, name of an unspeci
(
EL occurs
-*= XXXV.
a writing
of Takeloth the bearing
, 3 , jITS H
