Coffin and Corn Mummy with Osiris Mask

This funerary object is a small, mummiform coffin designed to house a votive figure made of grain and earth. The exterior is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs and adorned with a falcon mask, associating the contents with both Osiris, the god of the afterlife, and Sokar, the falcon-headed god of the Memphite necropolis. Such figures were ritually buried to symbolically ensure the regeneration of the deceased through the cycles of grain growth and seasonal return.

The corn mummy represents a direct physical manifestation of the agricultural cycle as a metaphor for resurrection, a core concept in Egyptian funerary theology that later influenced Hellenistic mystery schools and Hermetic notions of spiritual transformation.