Egyptian Bronze Osiris Egyptian Bronze Osiris Egyptian Bronze Osiris Egyptian Bronze Osiris Egyptian Bronze Osiris Egyptian Bronze Osiris Egyptian Bronze Osiris
Egyptian Bronze Osiris
Egyptian Bronze Osiris
Egyptian Bronze Osiris
Egyptian Bronze Osiris
Egyptian Bronze Osiris
Egyptian Bronze Osiris
Egyptian Bronze Osiris

Egyptian Bronze Osiris

SKU: MS.0052

Origin: Egypt
Circa: Late Period to Ptolemaic, 664 BC - 30 BC
Dimensions: 7.5" Height x 2" Width x 1.6" Depth; Including stand 9.5" Height x 2.3" Width x 2.3" Depth (19cms x 5cms x 4cms; 24cms x 5.8cms)
Medium: Bronze

Depicted mummiform with his arms folded on his chest, wearing a plumed atef-crown with frontal uraeus, the eyes preserving traces of gold overlay, a long false beard and an incised multi-strand broad collar with counterpoise hanging down the back, holding a crook and flail, on integral trapezoidal base with two sides with hieroglyphic inscription reading 'Osiris gives life to [?], Padiusir.'

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Private collection, France, acquired 1970s

Overall with a smooth mottled dark patination. Tip of his left plume missing. Minor surface wear overall.

For a similar bronze Osiris in canonical form with hieroglyphs to the base, see "Standing Mummiform Statuette of Osiris", c. 664-332 BC, Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, Accession # 08.480.38

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Late Dynastic

Egyptian Bronze Osiris

Late Dynastic

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