This choice piece is a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris statue, a fixture in Late Period burials. Ptah-Sokar-Osiris was a conglomerate figure made to include characteristics of all three of its component gods, all of whom were associated with death and the afterlife. These statues were often hollow or were mounted on hollow bases to include a rolled papyrus scroll on which the Book of the Dead was written.
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