LATE PERIOD (712-332 B.C.)
Details
A BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD (712-332 B.C.)
Holding crook and flail, wearing atef-crown, traces of gilding, 3 in. (7.6 cm.) high; a bronze apis bull, 1½ in. (3.7 cm.) long; eight blue and green glazed composition amulets of deities, comprising Bes, Isis, Ptaichos, Sekhmet, Shu (one arm missing), Tueris and two of Thoth, Late Period/Ptolemaic (712-30 B.C.), 2 in. (5 cm.) high max.; two turquoise glazed composition shabtis, one with traces of details in dark glaze, feet repaired, Third Intermediate Period and Ptolemaic respectively, 2½ in. (6.3 cm.) and 4.3/8 in. (11 cm.) high; and four Roman mosaic polychrome glass bowl fragments, 1st Century B.C./A.D. (16)
LATE PERIOD (712-332 B.C.)
Holding crook and flail, wearing atef-crown, traces of gilding, 3 in. (7.6 cm.) high; a bronze apis bull, 1½ in. (3.7 cm.) long; eight blue and green glazed composition amulets of deities, comprising Bes, Isis, Ptaichos, Sekhmet, Shu (one arm missing), Tueris and two of Thoth, Late Period/Ptolemaic (712-30 B.C.), 2 in. (5 cm.) high max.; two turquoise glazed composition shabtis, one with traces of details in dark glaze, feet repaired, Third Intermediate Period and Ptolemaic respectively, 2½ in. (6.3 cm.) and 4.3/8 in. (11 cm.) high; and four Roman mosaic polychrome glass bowl fragments, 1st Century B.C./A.D. (16)
Provenance
Lord Amherst collection (Ptaichos); Lord Grenfell collection (Sekhmet); Bethel collection (Thoth).