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Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris

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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

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