LOT 445 EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
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Late Dynastic Period, ca. 664-332 BC. A bronze figure of God Osiris shown mummiform with a braided divine beard curved out at its tip, an atef-crown notched for plumes that is fronted by a uraeus, and a peaceful, idealized face. He is posed with the arms folded across the chest, holding a crook and flail. Osiris is the most significant and important god in the Egyptians pantheon. He is known firstly as a god of fertility and then as a god of the underworld. He is usually depicted as a gold or green-faced man, to declare his association with the underworld. Size: L:80mm / W:25mm ; 40gProvenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.
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