Statuette of OsirisLate Period, 25th - 26th Dynasty (circa 755 - 525 B.C.)

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Title: Statuette of Osiris
Place Made: Egypt
Date Made: Late Period, 25th - 26th Dynasty (circa 755 - 525 B.C.)
Medium: Steatite
Dimensions: Height: 10 1/16 in. (25.6 cm); Width: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Depth of base: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn
Accession Number: AC1992.152.49
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Egyptian Art
Curatorial Notes: Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld and afterlife, is represented here in his most common form (see also M.60.35.8). He is wrapped in a funerary shroud and carries the carefully rendered insignia of sovereignty, the curved scepter of a shepherd and a flail, or flywisk. He also wears the atef crown, a tall conical headdress with two feathers and a long uraeus (cobra). His face is unusually well defined, with high polished cheeks, eyebrows in raised relief, and delicately carved features. This statuette of Osiris is atypical in that it is provided with a back pillar and a base with a curved front, all carved from a single slab of steatite.
Provenance: Tigrane Pacha (d. 1904), Egypt. [Michel E. Abemayor (1912–1975), Gallery, New York]. Hans Cohn (1903–1994), Los Angeles, in 1966, gift 1992 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Thomas, Nancy, and Constantina Oldknow, eds. By Judgment of the Eye: The Varya and Hans Cohn Collection. Los Angeles: Hans Cohn, 1991.

Not on view

Title: Statuette of Osiris
Place Made: Egypt
Date Made: Late Period, 25th - 26th Dynasty (circa 755 - 525 B.C.)
Medium: Steatite
Dimensions: Height: 10 1/16 in. (25.6 cm); Width: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Depth of base: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn
Accession Number: AC1992.152.49
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Egyptian Art
Curatorial Notes: Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld and afterlife, is represented here in his most common form (see also M.60.35.8). He is wrapped in a funerary shroud and carries the carefully rendered insignia of sovereignty, the curved scepter of a shepherd and a flail, or flywisk. He also wears the atef crown, a tall conical headdress with two feathers and a long uraeus (cobra). His face is unusually well defined, with high polished cheeks, eyebrows in raised relief, and delicately carved features. This statuette of Osiris is atypical in that it is provided with a back pillar and a base with a curved front, all carved from a single slab of steatite.
Provenance: Tigrane Pacha (d. 1904), Egypt. [Michel E. Abemayor (1912–1975), Gallery, New York]. Hans Cohn (1903–1994), Los Angeles, in 1966, gift 1992 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Thomas, Nancy, and Constantina Oldknow, eds. By Judgment of the Eye: The Varya and Hans Cohn Collection. Los Angeles: Hans Cohn, 1991.