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statuette, Osiris

human history
  • Description

    statuette. Bronze fragment from a statue of Osiris. Separately cast part of a large bronze statue of the God Osiris wearing the atef crown. This is the left hand plume, ram's horn, uraeus with sun disk and pendant uraeus (made separately and missing from suspension ring) from the crown. The pendant uraeus was made separately and hung from a suspension ring below the ram's horn, the uraeus is now missing but part of the attachment for it remains in the ring.

    Details of the plume, uraeus and ram's horn are incised. The two tenons on the side were to attach to the crown.

  • Place
  • Accession Date
    [1883]
  • Other Id

    11154 (ethnology)

  • Department
statuette, Osiris, 11154, Photographed by Richard Ng,… … Read more

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