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The Basalt Stone
Unusually,
the women held scepters and wore Imperial crowns. The
woman on the left held the divine scepter and wore a
sun-disk crown of Ra the sun god. Below and to the
left of her throne was a depiction of Ra himself.
The woman on the right held the scepter and flail and wore
the crown of Osiris the god of the dead, and to
the right and below this figure was a depiction of
Osiris.
The entire pantheon of
the early kingdom was portrayed in the area beneath the
thrones. The figure of Ra was followed by
Bastet, Khnum, Thoth, Apis, Sobek, Anubis, and then
Osiris. Strangely, Horus, the symbol of the
Pharaoh’s divinity was not included.