September 06, 2007 01:34PM
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S: "By all accounts, Osiris is a Dynasty 5 creation, with no real dominance until the end of that era. The overall nature of the earliest texts clearly shows that the first known attestation, in the tomb of Princess Hemetra, must date to mid- to late-dynasty 5. Since Djoser is roughly 2650 BCE and Unas is 2350 BCE, that's three centuries. I did not overstate the case."
The tomb of Hemetra, who may have been a daughter of Khafra, has been dated to late Dyn 4.... early Dyn 5 or to later in Dyn 5, depending on how the evidence for dating the tomb is interpreted.
However, one of the earliest secure attestations of the name of Osiris, is from the Dyn 5 tomb of Ptahshepses, who was born in the reign of Menkaura, Khufu's grandson. The architrave over his 'false door', "contains five lines of text consisting of standard invocation-formulae to Osiris and Anubis" (James 1961: 17 (682); Pl. XVII). The top line begins with: "An offering the king gives, an offering Osiris, the Great God, Lord of Maat gives" (Htp di niswt Htp di wsir nTr aA nb mAat).
Obviously, Osiris was an extremely important deity already in Dyn 5. 'Great God', 'Lord of Maat' is only applicable to the divine / royal realm - for example, the first king of Dyn 4, Snefru, was 'Lord of Maat', and 'Great God'.
As the name of Osiris is attested earlier than Unis, this means its not 300 years, but about 150 - 210 years after Netjerikhet.
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