Lot Essay
For a figure of Osiris-Lunus, similar but for the absence of the atef-crown, see no. 88 in Chappaz and Chamay, reflets du divin, Antiquités pharaoniques et classiques d'une collection privée.
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LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS-LUNUS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD,
664-30 B.C.
Solid cast, seated with his feet together on an integral square plinth, a tenon below, depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, his hands emerging from beneath his vestment, right over left, holding a crook and a flail, wearing a plaited false beard curved at its tip, the striated tripartite wig fronted by a uraeus, surmounted by a crescent moon and a solar disk, topped with ram horns supporting a plumed atef-crown framed by uraei
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high excluding tenon
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD,
664-30 B.C.
Solid cast, seated with his feet together on an integral square plinth, a tenon below, depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, his hands emerging from beneath his vestment, right over left, holding a crook and a flail, wearing a plaited false beard curved at its tip, the striated tripartite wig fronted by a uraeus, surmounted by a crescent moon and a solar disk, topped with ram horns supporting a plumed atef-crown framed by uraei
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high excluding tenon
Provenance
Zakaria Collection, Los Angeles, formed in the 1960s.