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Osiris, the King and Horus: After Belzoni’s Egyptian Plate
A seated Osiris faces a royal figure accompanied by the falcon-headed Horus, with a standing goddess at the opposite side. Hieroglyphs and a winged disc occupy the architectural enclosure above them. Weisse reproduces the scene from the nineteenth plate of Belzoni’s atlas and interprets it in relation to initiation. The image’s Egyptian divine encounter and the later Masonic reading remain distinct layers of its history.
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Illustrator not identified. "Osiris, the King and Horus: After Belzoni’s Egyptian Plate" [editorial title]. In The Obelisk and Freemasonry, John A. Weisse, M.D.. 1880 edition, illustrated, 1880, J. W. Bouton. Source scan leaf 64. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0113-0052
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Illustrator not identified. Osiris, the King and Horus: After Belzoni’s Egyptian Plate. The Obelisk and Freemasonry. Scan leaf 64. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0113-0052