BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
Property from a Belgian Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN BITUMEN PAINTED WOOD FIGURE OF PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS, PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 305-30 B.C.
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Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Property from a Belgian Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN BITUMEN PAINTED WOOD FIGURE OF PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS, PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 305-30 B.C.
mummiform and wearing a long beard, tripartite wig, and inserted crown with ram horns, plumes missing.
Height 44.5 cm.
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European private collection, 1960s, or earlier
Christie’s, London, June 12th, 2002, no. , illus.
Ptah-Sokar-Osiris was an Egyptian deity who gained popularity in funerary art in the 3rd Intermediate Period and continued being depicted into the Late Dynastic periods. A composite figure, he is composed of Ptah, the creator god of Memphis, Sokar, the patron of the Memphite necropolis and Osiris, the king of the underworld. The tripartite combination is meant to embody birth, death and resurrection. Typically, a corn mummy would be placed inside the figure, furthering its meaning as both a literal coffin as well as a symbol of the afterlife.