Apotheosis
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Apotheosis, also called divinization or deification, is the glorification of a subject to divine levels and, commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in th
Apotheosis of Venice (1585) by Paolo Veronese, a ceiling in the Doge's Palace
The Apotheosis of Cornelis de Witt, with the Raid on Chatham in the background
The Apotheosis of Achilles, from the Monteleone Chariot, Etruscan, 6th century BC
Apotheosis of Emperor Antoninus Pius (d. 161) and his wife Faustina the Elder (d. c. 140), base of his column in Rome
Imhotep
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Imhotep was an Egyptian chancellor to the King Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical fig
Apotheosis
…as the god Osiris, having been identified as Horus while on the throne, and sometimes referred to as the "son" of various other deities. The architect Imhotep was deified after his death, though the process seems to have been gradual, taking well over a thousand years, by which time he had become associated…
Statuette of Imhotep, 664–30 BC
The step pyramid of Djoser
Ernest Board: An invocation to I-em-hetep, the Egyptian deity of medicine, c. 1912