Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figurine

In pharaonic religious thinking, the identities of gods could merge into new combinations because divinity was viewed as malleable. An illustrative example is the god Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, who emerges in the later New Kingdom as a mixture of three distinct deities, collectively representing chthonic (relating to the underworld) and regenerative powers. The iconography of such statuettes features the wrapped, undifferentiated form of a deity with a divine wig and tall feathered crown, set on a base that is often richly embellished. The Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figurine of the temple musician Ihyt (Ptolemaic Period). A series of figurines depicting Ptah-Sokar-Osiris have been found in elite burial