ABSTRACT
The first was found in the Salt collection, purchased by Champollion at Leghorn which forms the basis of the Louvre collection. The statuette is painted dark red, except the eyes and the embroidery, which are white. Sokari was the god of the dead at Memphis, as Osiris was at Abydos; so they were soon identified one with the other, Sokar-Osiri, and with Phtah, Phtah-Sokari, Phtah-Sokar-Osiri. From other monuments the authors know more than one Egyptian of the name Phtah-Ma, and more than one lady Na. Like the limestone and wooden statues of large dimensions, these formed part of the funerary equipment. It is an officer in semi-military costume of the time of Amenophis III or of his successors. The figure to which it was fastened is reproduced in Leemans, Egyptian Monuments in the Museum of Antiquities of Holland at Leyden. The papyrus would serve as a piece of convincing evidence and it was religion which gave the monument its meaning.
