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A LARGE BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF KING OSORKON II
DYNASTY XXII, CIRCA 874-850 B.C.
Hollow cast, the king wearing a nemes-headdress and coiled figure-of-eight uraeus, the body of which stretches over the top of the crown, wearing arm and wrist bands and a shendyt-kilt, each side of his throne chased with a scene of a ram-headed solar deity emerging from a lotus flower, flanked by two solar winged goddesses, below, three kneeling, rejoicing jackal-headed souls of Dep, a border of ankh (life) and was (dominion) signs below, the back chased with outspread winged vulture figure of Mut, wearing sun-disc, holding a maat-feather at each corner, below: the two figures of Hapy bind up the Two Lands, with similar ankh and was frieze below, repaired with some restoration, on wooden mount
18 in. (46 cm.) high excl. mount
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