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| EGYPTIAN GREENISH-GRAY GREYWACKE SACRED TRIAD OF HORUS, OSIRIS AND ISIS From a statue of a kneeling Naosphoros with a column of hieroglyphic text incised on the back pillar: Master of Secrets, Ruler of the Temple, Chief of the Grainary, Nome 12 (Hebyt). Osiris wears the Atef crown and carries the royal crook and flail, falcon-headed Horus &, Isis wears a horned solar disk. Osiris was the God of the underworld and resuscitation while his sister and wife Isis was considered the symbolical mother of the Pharaoh and was worshipped as the "Great of Magic" and regarded as the "Eye of Ra". Their son Horus is traditionally considered the first Pharaoh of Egypt and at later times, the spiritual king whereas the Pharaoh is his incarnation on Earth. Mounting possibly by Kichizo Inagaki, Paris. Ex Florida collection; private collection, Westlake Village, California. XXVIth Dynasty 664-525 BC H. 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm.) x W. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm.) D. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.) BM0801C $85,000 Sales |
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