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Estimate
GBP (£) 500 - 700
EUR (€) 580 - 810
USD ($) 670 - 940
£250 (EUR 289; USD 335) (+bp*)
LATE-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
5 1/4 in. (136 grams, 13.5 cm).
Modelled in the round as a characteristically mummiform standing figure with arms crossed and holding the crook and flail regalia, wearing the hedjet crown and uraeus.
PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, GHP Egyptology 28, London, 2018, p. 69, no. 81, for a similar example.
FOOTNOTES:
Osiris is a deity associated with death and fertility, widely acknowledged as the supreme god of rebirth. Although he was once a mortal ruler, as a deity, his domain was the Underworld. Abydos served as the primary cult site of Osiris’s worship, where a renowned annual celebration in his honour took place.
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