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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4942465, member: 110350"]Earlier in this thread, I raised the issue of identifying the headdress on the Canopus of Osiris depicted on the reverses of someAlexandrian tetradrachms people have posted.  At first glance, I thought the headdress on mine (posted above in this thread) looked like a sun disk with cow horns around it, which wouldn't make much sense, because that's associated with Isis, not Osiris.  But, looking at the headdress on mine again in a more detailed closeup, I've changed my mind:  [ATTACH=full]1188124[/ATTACH] I'm now convinced that what I saw as "horns" actually curve outwards instead of inwards, and that what I saw as a sun disk between them is oblong rather than round. Therefore, I've concluded that the headdress is simply a representation of Osiris's typical feathered white Atef crown, combining the Hedjet, the crown of Upper Egypt, with curly red ostrich feathers, curling outwards on each side of the crown.  In other words, it's the same type of headdress as the one on my bronze Osiris figure also posted above, minus the uraeus or upright cobra that seems to be depicted on the bronze: [ATTACH=full]1188128[/ATTACH] I'd still like to know, however, if anyone can identify what looks sort of like a horizontal rack of antlers directly underneath the Atef crown on the coin -- not only in terms of what animal they're supposed to be from, but also what they're supposed to represent in Egyptian iconography.[/QUOTE]