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Ancient Egyptian Bronze Figure of Osiris c.700 BC.

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Ancient Egyptian Bronze Figure of Osiris c.700 BC.
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Ancient Egyptian Bronze Figure of Osiris c.700 BC. Size 7 1/8 inches high + mount. Fine Hollow cast bronze figure of Osiris, the god and judge of the dead, is depicted in his traditional, mummiform with his arms crossed at the wrists over his chest, with his hands holding a crook and flail respectively. These attributes suggest that the origins of Osiris lay in the agricultural and pastoral pursuits of the early ancient Egyptians who used the flail to thresh grain and the crook to shepherd their flocks. Wearing Crown of Upper Egypt with uraeus, or sacred cobra. Ex Harlen Berk USA. Custom mounted.