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 ...