Egyptian Bronze Osiris Figure, ex-Newark Museum

**Originally Listed At $1000**

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A cast-bronze fragmentary figure depicting Osiris, the god of the underworld. Osiris presents with a rigid pose as he holds his signature heka scepter in his lowered left hand and his flagellum in his raised right hand. A false beard extends beneath Osiris' chin as well as his pursed lips, protruding nose, and petite eyes, and atop his head is the Atef crown with a pair of ostrich feathers and a frontal uraeus cobra. Thick layers of brown and green patina envelop the entire composition in color. The figural fragment is mounted to a modern wooden backing with an informational plaque as well as a rendition of Osiris as he presides over the ceremony known as the "weighing of the heart." Custom wooden plaque and cardboard storage box included. Size (Osiris): 1.25" W x 3.875" H (3.2 cm x 9.8 cm); (backing): 9.5" W x 9.9" H (24.1 cm x 25.1 cm); (box): 10.9" L x 10.875" W x 1.625" H (27.7 cm x 27.6 cm x 4.1 cm)

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; deaccessioned from the Newark Museum, New Jersey, used as part of the teaching collection in the 1980s, inventory number X53.128

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Condition Report: This is a fragment of a full Osiris figure; losses to legs and feet as shown. Softening and encrustations to some finer features along upper body, with chipping to lower body. Nice brown and green patina throughout. Old inventory number written on one side of Osiris. Mounted to modern wooden panel with informational plaque and contextual picture. Old inventory numbers written on verso of wooden plaque as well as top of box lid.