A Granite figure of Osiris, 25th/early 26th Dynasty, 700-600 B.C., or earlier

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Description

A Granite figure of Osiris
Height 15 1/4 in. 38.7 cm.

standing against a tapering back pillar holding the crook and flail, and wearing a braided beard with beard-straps and the crown of Upper Egypt with fragmentary uraeus, his face with full outlined lips, indented philtrum, and long outlined eyebrows and cosmetic lines.

Provenance

by family descent, recorded as an "Antique Egyptian King fig." in a 1965 house inventory

Catalogue Note

Cf. Baltimore, Egyptian Sculpture, no. 41, figs.89-90, a green schist seated figure of Osiris in the Walters Art Museum, which exhibits a similar placement of the beard and treatment of the eyebrows and cosmetic lines. Also see G. Daressy, Statues de divinités (Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, nos. 38001-39384), Cairo, 1905-1906, no. 38.237, pl. XIV.