Head — Abydos / Memphis

Competing head-and-tomb traditions

The anatomical identity is Osiris's head, placed at the crown of the front-view silhouette. The relic-site claim rendered here is Abydos, with Memphis retained as a competing claim because Plutarch reports both cities as repositories of Osirian body or tomb traditions; neither source securely assigns the head to one city, so this is an editorial body-as-landscape projection.

Head — Abydos / MemphisHead — Abydos / MemphisRight eye — HeliopolisLeft eye — LetopolisMouth and tongue — White Wall (Memphis)Neck — Diospolis ParvaHeart — BusirisRight hand — Athribite nomeLeft hand — SaisLiver — Heracleopolis (Naref)Spleen — Hermopolis ParvaBackbone — White Wall / RosetauRight leg and foot — Letopolis nomeLeft leg and foot — AbydosPhallus — Mendes

Point 1 of 14 in Osiris — the fourteen scattered parts

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride §§18, 20 (secondary_translation)

Plutarch reports fourteen parts and says that Abydos and Memphis each carried Osirian body/tomb claims; he does not identify the head specifically.

J. Gwyn Griffiths, The Origins of Osiris and His Cult (scholarly_modern)

Used for the history of competing Osirian cult-centre traditions; the head-to-site assignment remains a synthesis.

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