LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS

LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS

Mummiform figure of the god of the Underworld, standing on square base, both of his hands before his chest sticking out of the mummy wrappings, in his right hand holding the flail above his left hand with the crook, cloak wrapped around him, wearing the Atef crown of Upper Egypt decorated with a long stretched uraeus and flanked by feathers and ram’s horns, and wearing the ceremonial ‘false’ beard.

Ex priv. coll. J.J.M., Netherlands 1950-1992, inherited H.W.S. Neth.
H. 34,9 cm. Dark patina, upperpart of left feather broken off. Mounted.

Saite Period, 26th Dyn., c. 664 – 525 BC

Cf. G, Steindorff, Egyptian Sculpture, Baltimore 1946, pls LXVI-LXVII