The sculpture may depict <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris" class="extiw" title="w:Osiris">Osiris</a>, who had been murdered, making his wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" class="extiw" title="w:Isis">Isis</a> pregnant after his death, which later resulted in the birth of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus" class="extiw" title="w:Horus">Horus</a>. This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Egypt">Ancient Egyptian</a> myth was associated with fertility and resurrection. The six smaller figures are probably priests; two of them restrain and hold an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oryx" class="extiw" title="w:oryx">oryx</a>, which signifies the destruction of evil and Osiris's triumph.
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Photographed without flash by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anagoria" title="User:Anagoria">Anagoria</a> on 20 April 2011, 18:55.