The remains of the Chapel of Osiris-Ptah Neb-ankh lie south of Karnak’s Tenth Pylon and east of the famed avenue of ram-headed sphinxes. The structure is believed to have been built by the 25th ...
Over the centuries, depictions of Ptah were merged with depictions of two other ancient dieties, Osiris, a god of resurrection, and Sokar, a god of the afterlife, resulting in a "funerary god ...
This effigy of the king shows him in the form of an Egyptian god Sokar-Osiris who protected the gateway to the afterlife. The Egyptians believed the deceased king to be the embodiment of the god ...