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Lot 29

An Egyptian bronze Osiris

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian bronze Osiris
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
The god depicted mummiform with an incised back pillar, his hands emerging from a tightly-wrapped long cloak to hold the crook and flail, a suspension loop on the proper right front side of the low integral plinth, another between the shoulders on the reverse, 13.2cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, Belgium, acquired 1970s; and thence by descent to the present owner.

The position of the arms, one held on the breast and one over the stomach, suggests a Lower-Egypt origin; see J.G. Griffiths, The Origins of Osiris and His Cult, Leiden, 1980, p. 85.

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