Osiris'in Sandığa Kapatılması

But when Osiris came home, Typhon formed a plot against him, taking seventy-two men as accomplices for his conspiracy, and being also aided by a certain Queen of Ethiopia, whose name they say was Aso. Having therefore privately taken the measurements of Osiris's body and built a skillfully crafted ark, very finely decorated and exactly the size of his body, he brought it to a certain banquet. As all the guests were wonderfully delighted with such a rare sight and admired it greatly, Typhon jokingly promised that whichever person in the company could fit into it, finding it to be the exact size of their body, should have it as a present. As everyone was eager to try, and none fitted it, Osiris at last got into it himself and lay down in it. At that moment, those present immediately ran to the chest and slammed down the cover. After they had fastened it down with nails and soldered it with melted lead, they carried it out to the river side and let it float into the sea at the Tanaitic mouth, which the Egyptians therefore detest to this day, loathing even the naming of it. These things happened upon the seventeenth day of the month of Athyr, when the sun enters the constellation of Scorpio, and that was in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Osiris.