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ANDREAS SCHWAB

LMU Munich

The Egyptian name “House of Osiris” (Pr‐wsyr) is given to several places containing an OSIRIS sanctuary. One of the most important was in the city of Busiris, which Herodotus locates in the middle of the Nile DELTA (2.59.1), modern Abusir. This city also holds the largest sanctuary of ISIS (= DEMETER, 2.59.2), and its people celebrate her FESTIVAL (2.40). After the SACRIFICE, several thousand men and women beat their breasts in a rite of lamentation (2.61.1, not explicitly in reference to Osiris), which is part of the Egyptian festival of Khoiak. Busiris also gave its name to an Egyptian nome (νομός, administrative district), one of those which contributed to the warrior‐class of the HERMOTYBIES (2.165).

SEE ALSO: Egypt; Religion, Herodotus’ views on; Ritual