ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Osiris Wearing an Atef Crown

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodLate Period

Date722-332 BCE

MediumBronze

Credit LineGift of the Georges Ricard Foundation

Dimensions7 5/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 3/16 in., 580 g (18.6 x 6 x 3 cm, 1 lb. 4 7/16 oz.)

Object number2018.010.742

Label TextThis bronze statuette depicts the mummiform god Osiris wearing a close-fitting shroud. His wrists and hands poke out of vertical slits and meet in the center of his body, just below his chest. His separately fashioned crook and flail are missing. Osiris wears an Atef-crown consisting of the Upper Egyptian White Crown flanked by one of two lateral plumes. A pair of twisted horizontal ram horns are placed at the base of the crown. Rising from the tips of the left horn, flush against the plumes, are two small uraei with sun disks.

The god has a round face, full cheeks, thick lips, a long nose, a short neck, and a false braided beard. He wears an elaborate beaded collar. His hands once grasped his traditional insignia of a flail and heka-scepter. In the front, only the calves and knees are modeled under his shroud. On the bottom of the statuette extends a 4 cm vertical tang for insertion into a separate base.
Exhibition HistoryLife and the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 4 - August 6, 2023
Published ReferencesMelinda K. Hartwig, ed., Life and The Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2023), catalogue entry 44.

ProvenanceSaid to be ex coll. Lord George Talbot. Ex coll. Georges Ricard Foundation, Santa Barbara, California, possibly purchased from Roger Fernand Galliano, Paris, France.

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