Category:Egyptian sculpture of an erotic group (Brooklyn Museum)

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English: The sculpture may depict Osiris, who had been murdered, making his wife Isis pregnant after his death, which later resulted in the birth of Horus. This Ancient Egyptian myth was associated with fertility and resurrection. The six smaller figures are probably priests; two of them restrain and hold an oryx, which signifies the destruction of evil and Osiris's triumph. Ptolemaic Period (305–30 v. Chr.).