• Lloyd Graham deposited When Isis “moored” Osiris: The many meanings of mni in the group Group logo of EgyptologyEgyptology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months ago

    The Great Hymn to Osiris on the Stele of Amenmose (Louvre C 286) constitutes the most complete Egyptian account of the Osiris myth. The Hymn says that, when Isis eventually located Osiris’s body, she “moored her brother”; accordingly, the verb mni is used to describe one of the most crucial events in the core myth of ancient Egypt. This communication argues that, in this context, mni concurrently carries up to seven layers of meaning.