#King_Osorkon

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A finely detailed pendant (9 centimeters in height) depicting King Osorkon II, who reigned circa 874-850 BCE during the 22nd Dynasty at the time of the Third Intermediate Period. The king is shown as a crouching Osiris on a pillar. He is flanked on either side by his wife, Isis, and his son, Horus. The three figures are made of solid gold while the pillar is made of lapis lazuli. The palm leaves on the cornice and the base are fashioned in gold cloisonné inlaid with lapis and red glass. This masterpiece (E 6204) is now in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Photo: Corbis/Cordon Press

"The divine trio of Isis, Osiris, and Horus had weighty political significance... The living Pharaoh was assimilated to Horus, while the one immediately deceased was identified with Osiris, ruler of the dead; the new Pharaoh's task, like Horus,' was always to re-establish cosmic order; order which had been thrown into disarray and confusion by the death of his predecessor. As for Isis, whose name refers to the royal throne, she was literally the seat of political power" ― Ager, Sheila L. (2006). The Power of Excess: Royal Incest and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Anthropologica, 48(2), 165-186.

The inscriptions on this pendant, however, do not describe Osorkon II as a deceased sovereign, and the text is not funerary. It is possible that the piece may have been a temple jewel at a cult center dedicated to Osiris.

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