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Osiris statuette

Standing, mummiform figure of Osiris, wearing a tight-fitting dress which leaves the hands uncovered. He is wearing an atef-crown with inlaid feathers. The chin, neck and part of the back of the head of the statue are decorated with a pictorial reintegration, carried out using the dotted technique, the result of a restoration. Osiris has a false beard and a wesekh-collar. The arms are bent and the fists, the right one positioned above the left and resting tightly on the torso, hold the nekhekh and the heqa-sceptres. Inside the feet there is a wooden tenon that looks ancient and partially burned, from which a square tenon projects down. The object is made in the lost-wax technique for hollow casts.

Cat. 35
Metal+glass paste / Bronze
14.3 cm x 59.5 cm x 8.3 cm
664–525 BCE
Late Period
Twenty–sixth Dynasty
Old Fund, 1824–1888
Not on display
Museo Egizio