EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS FIGURINE

Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BC. A cast bronze figurine depicting Osiris seated, wearing the atef crown with lateral ostrich feathers and a central uraeus. His face is framed by a long false beard, and his arms are crossed over the chest, with the hands holding the crook and flail. The close-fitting shroud envelops the body, with the feet resting together. A rectangular tenon projects beneath the seat for attachment. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 61.45. Size: 150mm x 50mm; Weight: 215g Provenance: From a private UK collection; formerly in the S.S. collection, assembled from the 1970s onwards.

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