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This is the rating and price for Egyptian Bronze Osiris-Lunus

Recorded provenance


Description : LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C. Solid cast, seated with his feet together on an integral square plinth, a tenon below, depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, his hands emerging from beneath his vestment, right over left, holding a crook and a flail, wearing a plaited false beard curved at its tip, the striated tripartite wig fronted by a uraeus, surmounted by a crescent moon and a solar disk, topped with ram horns supporting a plumed atef-crown framed by uraei 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high excluding tenon
Price: 24 000.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 20000 USD-30000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 75
Title : Egyptian Bronze Osiris-Lunus
Provenance : Zakaria Collection, Los Angeles, formed in the 1960s.
Notes : For a figure of Osiris-Lunus, similar but for the absence of the atef-crown, see no. 88 in Chappaz and Chamay, reflets du divin, Antiquités pharaoniques et classiques d'une collection privée.
Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 09 Dec 2005 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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