Extensive
study and interpretation of Egyptian funerary material (i.e. Osiris and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures) in the collections of the Egyptian Museum in Florence, with artefact comparison from international museums and excavated
from Abydos, Deir el-Bahari, Fayum, Heliopolis, Memphis, Saqqara and Thebes. Typological, philological, and iconographical analysis; study and interpretation of the objects from manufacture to museum collections, focussing on historical and archaeological research in archives. The thesis includes a detailed catalogue of the artefacts.