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LOT 0030

Egyptian Bronze Osiris Statuette

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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LOT 0030

Egyptian Bronze Osiris Statuette

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300

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