Wood. polychrome stucco
Visible lacks and accidents
On the back of the ostrich feathers old collection label "Higford Burr" and the same type of label on the base of the Horus
White chalk number on the rectangular base "31 73"
Jeanine Vérité inventory number "4650"
H_ 72,0 cm
L_ 36,5 cm
Egypt, Ptolemaic period, 332-30 BC. J.-C.
- Osiris is standing mummy, he wears the tripartite wig and the crown of Amun.
- Traces of yellow hieroglyphic inscriptions on the body.
- Dorsal column inscribed with hieroglyphs.
- On the terrace, horizontal registers of hieroglyphs.
- In front of him, the falcon god Horus.
- Each side of the terrace is painted with the sign, nb, 'nh and w3s (master, life and power).
Origin :
Former collection of Margaretta Higford Burr (1817-1832), daughter of Admiral Edward Scobell and married to David Highford Davall Burr (1811-1885), British Member of Parliament.
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD PTAH SOKAR OSIRIS, PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
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