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LOT 0476
Egyptian Bronze Standing Figure of the God Osiris
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
4 1/2 in. (56.3 grams total, 11.6 cm high including stand).
Modelled in the round, with hands crossed on the chest, holding the deity's characteristic crook and flail, and wearing the atef- crown; mounted on a wooden display stand bearing the legend 'Osiris Ptolemaic'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired Herne Bay High Street, June 1957.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.8.
Cf. Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, GHP Egyptology 28, London, 2018, p. 70, no. 83, for similar.
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LOT 0476
Egyptian Bronze Standing Figure of the God Osiris
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
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