An Egyptian bronze figure of Osiris wearing the white crown
Late Period, circa 500-300 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, wearing the tall White Crown of Upper Egypt with frontal uraeus, plaited false beard and broad collar, the face finely-modelled with extended eyelines and brows, holding a crook and flail and standing on an integral base with an incised hieroglyphic inscription on all four sides, now illegible, 15.9cm high注脚Provenance:
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired in the 1970s.