BLACK BASALT STONE ENTHRONED OSIRIS

BLACK BASALT STONE ENTHRONED OSIRIS

Mummiform figure on throne with high back, wearing Atef crown with frontal uraeus and side-plumes, holding crook and flail in his hands, right one placed above his left.

Ex priv. coll. H.v.H, Netherlands.

Dim. 12 x 9,3 cm. Small chip from tip of crown.

Late Period, after 600 BC

cf. Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, The Brooklyn Museum, New York 1960, nr. 41, figs. 89-91 (for the type)