AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS

LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
Depicted mummiform with the arms folded at the chest, his fisted hands emerging from beneath his vestment, holding a crook and a flail, wearing a multi-strand broad collar, its details incised, the plumed atef-crown fronted by a uraeus, wearing a plaited false beard curved out at the tip, atop a trapezoidal integral plinth
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946).

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