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

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
15 3/16 in. (38.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), Cairo.
Acquired by the Cattaui family, Cairo, from the above in 1943; and brought to Switzerland in 1956.
Property from the Cattaui family collection; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 4 June 2015, lot 16.

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Lot Essay

This large Osiris is depicted mummiform with the arms bent at the elbows, his fisted hands emerging from beneath his vestment to hold the flail and the crook, now missing. His head is adorned by an elaborate atef-crown fronted by a uraeus and flanked by plumes and a uraeus topped by a solar disc above twisted ram horns. For another large and fine Osiris in bronze with inlaid eyes at the British Museum, see inv. no. EA67159.

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