Egyptian Traditions

 

 

 

Egyptian temple singers sometimes dressed as

the goddeses Isis and Nephthys to sing duets

lamenting the death of Osiris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TWO CARTONNAGE FRAGMENTS WITH

ISIS AND NEPHTHYS

Painted cartonnage

Roman Period, 100-200 CE

Egypt

Gift of Dr. Goudsmit, 1981, KM 81.4.31a,b