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LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Solid cast, depicted mummiform with the arms folded across the chest, his fisted hands emerging from his vestment, right over left, holding a crook and a flail, wearing a plaited false beard curved at its tip, and a plumed atef-crown supported by ram horns and fronted by a uraeus, on a low integral plinth, a tenon below for insertion
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high excluding tenon
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Solid cast, depicted mummiform with the arms folded across the chest, his fisted hands emerging from his vestment, right over left, holding a crook and a flail, wearing a plaited false beard curved at its tip, and a plumed atef-crown supported by ram horns and fronted by a uraeus, on a low integral plinth, a tenon below for insertion
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high excluding tenon
Provenance
Zakaria Collection, Los Angeles, formed in the 1960s.