Osiris aux sources du Nil. Epigraphie a summary presentation of the

a summary presentation of the style and iconography

décide que le cadavre de Polynice – qui a trahi sa patrie – demeurera exposé sans sépulture

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

led by Scipio Africanus

Osiris aux sources du Nil. Epigraphie a summary presentation of theThe 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