Egyptian Bronze Osiris Statue

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

10 1/4 in. (821 grams total, 26 cm high including stand).

A sizeable, slender standing mummiform figure of Osiris, wearing his iconic tall conical Atef crown with flanking ostrich plumes and a central uraeus, holding the crook (heka) and flail (nekhakha) regalia; mounted on a display stand. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the estate of Alexander Dobkin (1908-1975), New York, USA, acquired prior to 1975.
Thence by descent to his daughter, Katherine Dobkin, New York, USA..

Literature

Cf. Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, GHP Egyptology 28, London, 2018, p. 79, no. 102 (UC 6575), for a similar statuette.

Footnotes

Osiris was associated with death and fertility and was widely recognised as the supreme god of renewal and rebirth. Although he was once a mortal ruler, as a deity, his domain was the Underworld. Abydos served as the main site of Osiris’ worship, where a renowned annual celebration in his honour took place.

CONDITION

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