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EGYPTIAN BRONZE PHARAOH AS OSIRIS

Mummiform, holding a crook and flail, and wearing an unusual helmet-like headpiece with diadem fronted by a uraeus; diadem, cosmetic lines, and eyes once inlaid; one blue glass inlay remaining on diadem.

Rare type.
An unusually large and fine example.

Ex collection of a Belgium nobleman.

XXVth Dynasty, 715-664 BC

H. excluding tang 13 1/8 in. (33.5 cm.)

Gods & Mortals II, no. 75
Art of the Ancient World, 2002, no. 164

ABK01R
$85,000


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