Details

LOT 0040

Egyptian Osiris Statuette

LATE PERIOD, 664-525 B.C.

3 1/8 in. (37.1 grams, 80 mm high).

A bronze votive figurine of Osiris, portraying the god standing, wearing a close-fitting mummiform garment and Atef crown, false beard, hands held at the centre of the chest holding the royal crook and flail; possibly from Saqqara. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From an old UK collection.
From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.

Accompanied by an identification display card.
Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt.

Literature

See Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, London, 2018, p.92, no.122, for a comparable example with the same long handle of the crook.

Footnotes

Osiris was the foremost of the Egyptian funerary gods and ruler of the underworld.