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ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Statuette of Osiris

AAT Object Form/Functionstatuettes (free-standing sculpture)

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodThird Intermediate Period

Date1076-723 BCE

MediumBronze

Credit LineEgyptian Purchase Fund

Dimensions8 7/8 x 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (22.5 x 5.4 x 4.4 cm)

Object number2000.015

Label TextOsiris is shown here in his typical pose, wrapped as a mummy with his hands protruding from the bandages to grasp his emblems, the crook and the flail. He wears the "atef" crown, a tall headdress with two ostrich plumes on either side. The fine, delicate, and attenuated features of this example suggest an early date, probably in the Third Intermediate Period.

In later periods of Egyptian history, figures of gods were left by pilgrims at temples and other sacred sites. These were usually small bronze statuettes, but on occassion, they could be quite elaborate monuments.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - Present
Published ReferencesSotheby's New York, Antiquities (June 14, 2000), 20, lot 18.
Peter Lacovara, "The New Galleries of Egyptian and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva (September/October 2001): 9-16.
Peter Lacovara and Betsy Teasley Trope, The Realm of Osiris (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2001), 15.

ProvenanceEx private collection, Belgium. Purchased by MCCM from Sotheby's New York, June 14, 2000, lot 18.

Status

On view

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