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Atef

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A named plume-crown of Osiris in Egyptian image, the white crown flanked by ostrich feathers. Not the Pschent, and not every later Egyptian headpiece.

Egyptian religion

  • Atef is sacred to Osiris.

    The Book of the Dead shows Osiris in the atef, the white crown flanked by ostrich plumes. A named plume-crown of that god, not the pschent double crown and not a generic crown.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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  • Atef appears in Egyptian religion.

    The Book of the Dead’s Osiris image wears the atef, the white crown flanked by ostrich plumes, among funerary kingship marks. A named plume-crown in that corpus, not the pschent double crown already walked and not a generic crown dump.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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sources

  • Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)

    Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.