Osiris

Late Period, circa 716 – 332 BC

Hollow cast bronze.

H 12 cm without tang

The god is represented in seated posture; dressed in an enveloping shroud, in his hands the royal insignia crook and flail. He wears an Atef-crown with frontal uraeus and ostrich feathers, and a false beard. The eyes were originally inlaid in a different material. Repaired from two fragments.

Published

Galerie Günter Puhze – catalogue Kunst der Antike 2, Freiburg im Breisgau 1979, no. 315

cf.

The British Museum number: EA12592

Provenance

German private collection H. W. (1931-2018), acquired 1979.

Accompanied by an IADAA Interpol search certificate.

Price

€ 4.300

Item

7453

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