This bronze plume and ram’s horn once came from the left side of an Atef-crown, likely worn by the god of the underworld, Osiris. The element is composed of a horizontal corkscrew horn and a uraeus with a sun disk to the side of a plume. Recessed areas on the cobra’s body were once filled with colored paste. Two tenons on the right side of the plume once fit into the central miter of the crown. The size of the crown attachment suggests it was once part of a large statue over 51″ (129.5 cm) high. Similar large plumes were found along with small bronze figurines of Osiris at the temple of Amun at ancient Hibis in the Kharga Oasis.1
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Winlock, Herbert E. 1941. The Temple of Hibis in El Khargeh Oasis, Part 1: The Excavations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 17. New York: Plantin.; Wuttmann, Michel, Laurent Coulon, and Florence Gombert. 2007. “An Assemblage of Bronze Statuettes in a Cult Context: The Temple of 'Ayn Manawir.” In Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples, edited by Marsha Hall and Deborah Schorsch, 167–173. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.. ↩︎
Bibliography
- Winlock 1941
- Winlock, Herbert E. 1941. The Temple of Hibis in El Khargeh Oasis, Part 1: The Excavations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 17. New York: Plantin.
- Wuttmann et al., 2007
- Wuttmann, Michel, Laurent Coulon, and Florence Gombert. 2007. “An Assemblage of Bronze Statuettes in a Cult Context: The Temple of 'Ayn Manawir.” In Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples, edited by Marsha Hall and Deborah Schorsch, 167–173. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.