Description : his hands emerging from his cloak and holding the crook and flail, and wearing a finely engraved broad collar, braided beard with curled tip, beard-straps, and the atef-crown with fragmentary inserted uraeus and two long tassels falling down the back, two uraei (once inlaid) suspended from the horn of the inserted remaining plume, a uraeus on the ram's horn, his broad face with large eyes and eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief.
PROVENANCE
Estate of Mrs. Julian B. Herrmann, New York (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 14th, 1978, no. 396, illus.)
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, 1981, p. 8, illus.
CATALOGUE NOTE
Cf. Roeder, Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, §201i, pl. 26f, for a related example.
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About the lot N° 140 Title : Bronze Figure Of Osiris, Period : 1978.0 Size : height without tenon 6 1/4 in. 15.9 cm.