Osiris aux sources du Nil. Epigraphie the graphic delicacy of an

the graphic delicacy of an artist haunted by the twilight melancholy of fin-de-siècle symbolism

whose literary heritage they erected into a collection of models

that of its beliefs: for if the gods are not eternal

led by Scipio Africanus

Osiris aux sources du Nil. Epigraphie the graphic delicacy of anThe priests of Egypt very early sought to explain the mystery of creation; in the ancient country where everything or almost everything depends on water and its sovereign vector the Nile the explanatory stories linked it to Osiris. The place of this cosmic fusion imposed itself naturally; it could only be the place where the river, calmed, takes on its definitive appearance, the First Cataract with its islands of Philae and Biggeh. Osiris is