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LATE PERIOD/PTOLEMAIC, CIRCA 4TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS ON ORIGINAL WOOD STAND
LATE PERIOD/PTOLEMAIC, CIRCA 4TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.
The god depicted mummiform, wearing atef-crown, attached to the original rectangular stepped wood stand, 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) excl. base; four other bronze figures of Osiris, all depicted mummiform, with arms crossed holding crook and flail, wearing atef-crowns, 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high max.; a bronze figure of Harpocrates, with hand held to his mouth (in two pieces), 4 in. (10 cm.) high; a fragmentary bronze foot, 2 in. (5 cm.) long; two bronze bells, one with male genitalia relief, 2½ in. (6.5 cm.) high, all circa 4th-1st Century B.C.; a bronze dagger, 7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) long; a turquoise blue glazed composition overseer shabti, 4¼ in. (10.7 cm.) high; another inscribed shabti for Ta [di] khonsu, 3½ in. (9 cm.) high, both Dynasty XXI/XXII, 1069-715 B.C.; three other faience shabtis, circa 4th-2nd Century B.C.; a cartonnage fragment from a sarcophagus with broad floral collar and to the right recitation by "... foremost of the Westerners" (epithet of Osiris), to the left Duamutef (one of the Four sons of Horus), Late New Kingdom, early 1st millennium B.C., 6 in. (15.5 cm.) high; and a red, green and white gesso-painted funerary collar with falcon-headed terminals and winged scarab flanked by two wedjat-eyes, Late Period, 7th-3rd Century B.C., 5 in. (12.7 cm.) across, framed and glazed (17)
LATE PERIOD/PTOLEMAIC, CIRCA 4TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.
The god depicted mummiform, wearing atef-crown, attached to the original rectangular stepped wood stand, 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) excl. base; four other bronze figures of Osiris, all depicted mummiform, with arms crossed holding crook and flail, wearing atef-crowns, 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high max.; a bronze figure of Harpocrates, with hand held to his mouth (in two pieces), 4 in. (10 cm.) high; a fragmentary bronze foot, 2 in. (5 cm.) long; two bronze bells, one with male genitalia relief, 2½ in. (6.5 cm.) high, all circa 4th-1st Century B.C.; a bronze dagger, 7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) long; a turquoise blue glazed composition overseer shabti, 4¼ in. (10.7 cm.) high; another inscribed shabti for Ta [di] khonsu, 3½ in. (9 cm.) high, both Dynasty XXI/XXII, 1069-715 B.C.; three other faience shabtis, circa 4th-2nd Century B.C.; a cartonnage fragment from a sarcophagus with broad floral collar and to the right recitation by "... foremost of the Westerners" (epithet of Osiris), to the left Duamutef (one of the Four sons of Horus), Late New Kingdom, early 1st millennium B.C., 6 in. (15.5 cm.) high; and a red, green and white gesso-painted funerary collar with falcon-headed terminals and winged scarab flanked by two wedjat-eyes, Late Period, 7th-3rd Century B.C., 5 in. (12.7 cm.) across, framed and glazed (17)
Provenance
In the collection of the present owner's grandfather, Jakob Koller, who lived in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Item one: ink inscription on side of base "S. 538" and old collection label on underside.
Item one: ink inscription on side of base "S. 538" and old collection label on underside.
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