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A LARGE EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
Lot 50

A LARGE EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS

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

Closed6 July 2022

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GBP 50,000–80,000

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A LARGE EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
13 3⁄4 in. (35 cm.) high

with Galerie Archaique, Osaka, Japan.
Mr Asheroffe, Paris, France, acquired from the above in 1974.

Specialist note


G. Roeder ascribes the different poses of Osiris to geographical areas in Egypt: those with hands side-by-side to Middle Egypt, those with the hands crossed over one another to Upper Egypt, and those with hands one above the other, as with the present lot, to Lower Egypt (see Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, 1956).