Painted wooden figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris wearing a double plume and a disk over horizontal horns, with a red background wrapping, and columns of hieroglyphs down the lower front body, back pillar and pedestal. The surface is much worn over the body. Such figures were placed in the tomb as guarantors of rebirth, in rich burials of the 1st millennium BC.
Present location |
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN |
Inventory number |
1920:301 |
Dating |
LATE PERIOD |
Archaeological Site |
UNKNOWN |
Category |
STATUE |
Material |
WOOD |
Technique |
SCULPTURED |
Height |
66 cm |
Width |
11 cm |
Depth |
29.5 cm |