Two Bronzes, Late Period, 716-30 B.C.

comprising an animal-headed Osiroid figure holding the crook and flail and wearing a tripartite wig and the atef-crown with ram horns supporting uraei above and below, and a throne of Harpocrates, the supports each in the form of a standing lion, their feet resting on capitals, their tails fragmentary.

Collection of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966)
Professor Donald P. Hansen (1932-2007), New York

osiroid figure: quite worn, minor chips throne: surface somewhat worn and abraded, lion tails missing
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An old label under the wood base of the throne reads "1232," with other numbers and letters.