LATE PERIOD (664-332 B.C.)
Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD (664-332 B.C.)
The mummiform god wearing atef-crown, both hands clasped in front of him, traces of gilding, 7 in. (18 cm.) high; a bronze figure of Isis and Horus, the goddess seated with the child Horus on her lap (head missing), wearing closely fitted long dress, striated tripartite wig and uraeus, crowned by a diadem of uraei, sun-disc and horns, Late Period-Ptolemaic, circa 6th-1st Century B.C., 6¼ in. (16 cm.) high; a bronze figure of Osiris, standing holding crook and flail, 4th-2nd Century B.C., 4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high; and a bronze figure of a kneeling king, fragmentary, 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high, all mounted (4)
LATE PERIOD (664-332 B.C.)
The mummiform god wearing atef-crown, both hands clasped in front of him, traces of gilding, 7 in. (18 cm.) high; a bronze figure of Isis and Horus, the goddess seated with the child Horus on her lap (head missing), wearing closely fitted long dress, striated tripartite wig and uraeus, crowned by a diadem of uraei, sun-disc and horns, Late Period-Ptolemaic, circa 6th-1st Century B.C., 6¼ in. (16 cm.) high; a bronze figure of Osiris, standing holding crook and flail, 4th-2nd Century B.C., 4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high; and a bronze figure of a kneeling king, fragmentary, 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high, all mounted (4)
Provenance
Sold Christie's London, 10 December 1981, lot 302 (item one). Sold Christie's London, 6 May 1982, part lot 89 (item three) and lot 106 (item four).
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