AN EGYPTIAN GREEN GRAYWACKE TORSO OF OSIRIS

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-341 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN GRAYWACKE TORSO OF OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-341 B.C.
From a seated enthroned figure, depicted wearing a shroud-like garment and a broad collar, the garment with a peaked ridge along the shoulders, its border delineated by two incised lines where the hands emerge, positioned right above left, the right holding a flail, the left a crook, the nails of the thumbs finely detailed, the broad collar a series of incised concentric bands fringed by beaded drops, the back pillar uninscribed, the surface highly polished
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

Provenance

with Phoenix Ancient Art, Geneva, 1980.

Literature

G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 24, pp. 44-45.

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, periodically 1986-1991.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, California State University and elsewhere, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, 8 January-30 December 1992.

Lot Essay

For a complete figure of Osiris of similar gem-like quality compare the example from the tomb of the scribe Psammetik, dating to the end of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty, no. 252 in Saleh and Sourouzian, The Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

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