This bronze statuette depicts the mummiform god Osiris wearing a close-fitting shroud. His wrists and hands poke out of vertical slits and meet in the center of his body, just below his chest. His separately fashioned crook and flail are missing. Osiris wears an Atef-crown consisting of the Upper Egyptian White Crown flanked by one of two lateral plumes. A pair of twisted horizontal ram horns are placed at the base of the crown. Rising from the tips of the left horn, flush against the plumes, are two small uraei with sun disks.
The god has a round face, full cheeks, thick lips, a long nose, a short neck, and a false braided beard. He wears an elaborate beaded collar. His hands once grasped his traditional insignia of a flail and heka-scepter.1 In the front, only the calves and knees are modeled under his shroud. On the bottom of the statuette extends a 4 cm vertical tang for insertion into a separate base.
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Cf. New Haven, Yale Art Gallery 1956.33.80. ↩︎