Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD, 26TH-30TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-343 B.C.
His body wrapped in a shroud with only his hands emerging from beneath, wearing the plumed atef-crown with ram's horns, surmounted by a sun disc and fronted by a uraeus, his brows, eyes and mouth well-modelled, the long false beard, crook and flail with finely-incised details
17 5/8 in. (44.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Basel, 28 April 1972, lot 62.
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above sale; and thence by descent to the present owner.
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