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EGYPTIAN STEATITE OSIRIS Standing against a back pillar on a rectangular base rounded in front and holding the crook and flail, and wearing a chevron-engraved beard and the atef-crown with uraeus, his face with long philtrum, broad slightly upturned nose, and long eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief. Ex collection of Frank Elbert Compton (1874-1950), Chicago; private collection, Oregon, by descent. Frank E. Compton, who founded Compton's Encyclopedia in Chicago in 1922, traveled to Egypt in the 1920s. XXVIth Dynasty, 664-525 BC H. 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2010, no. 212 SNB201 $45,000 Sales |
