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LARGE BRONZE STATUE OF OSIRIS
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LARGE BRONZE STATUE OF OSIRIS
See original version (French)
Estimate €15,000 - €25,000
Voluntary lot
Description
LARGE BRONZE STATUE OF OSIRIS
Egyptian art, Third Intermediate Period, 1069–664 BC.
A statue depicting the god in mummy form, standing with his body wrapped in his shroud, his arms folded across his chest; in his right hand he holds the flagellum (nekhekh), whilst the sceptre (heqa), formerly held in his left hand, is now missing. He wears the white mitre of Upper Egypt (hedjet), adorned with an uraeus. The hollowed-out eye sockets were once intended to hold an inlay, which is now missing.
The feet and false beard are missing.
Height: 43.5 cm
Provenance: Former collection of Madame de Pourtalès, Meudon, inherited in the 1960s
Audap & Mirabaud, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 July 2010
Private collection, Paris
A large bronze figure of Osiris,
Third Intermediate Period, 1069–664 BC
See original version (French)
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