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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2970718, member: 56859&quot;]Thanks so much for that lead, [USER=90772]@Macromius[/USER]!&nbsp; I&#039;m reading about the funeral rites of Osiris and subsequent rituals, which are reportedly documented in detail*.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a passage which might provide a clue to the vessel&#039;s use:</p><p><br /></p><p>“...Then fresh inundation <b>water was poured out of a golden vase</b> over both the goddess and the ‘garden,’ and the barley was allowed to grow as the emblem of the resurrection of the god after his burial in the earth, ‘for the growth of the garden is the growth of the divine substance....’</p><p><br /></p><p>-from Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough, 1922; chapter 39, section 2</p><p><br /></p><p>Could the special vessel on this and similar Egyptian coins depict the golden vase used in these Osirian rituals?&nbsp; Maybe the upright &quot;drops&quot; represent sprouting corn.&nbsp; As Macromius pointed out, the vessel&#039;s bottoms and pillow are certainly reminiscent of canopic statues of Osiris.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Now to track down the source described in Frazer&#039;s book, as written in the same chapter:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The funeral rites of Osiris, as they were observed at his great festival in the sixteen provinces of Egypt, are described in a long inscription of the Ptolemaic period, which is engraved on the walls of the god’s temple at Denderah, the Tentyra of the Greeks, a town of Upper Egypt situated on the western bank of the Nile about forty miles north of Thebes.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>...and to see if any relics were preserved in those temples, or if there are any engravings of a similar vessel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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