Egyptian Bronze Mummiform Osiris Statuette

LATE PERIOD, 664-343 B.C.

4 3/4 in. (57 grams, 12.1 cm).

Wearing a tall Atef crown with sun disc and uraeus, arms crossed at the chest, holding the royal crook and flail. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Gifted by Herbert Parsons (1870-1940) to his grandson, James Gibson (1926-2013).
Inherited by the vendor and her brother, from their grandfather James Gibson.

Literature

Cf. Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, (GHP Egyptology 28), London, 2018, pp.70-71, nos. 82-83, 85, for similar.

CONDITION

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LOT 0505