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This exquisite statuette represents Osiris sitting, his feet resting on a rectangular base with a tenon. His body is enveloped in a tightly fitting mummy gown leaving exposed only his hands holding a crook and a flail; he wears an atef-crown with ram's horns and uraeus, a pleated artificial beard, a broad collar and bracelets. The eyes, eyebrows, beard and its strings, collar, bracelets, elements of the attributes are inlaid with gold. The statuette is an outstanding example of Saite metalwork.

This exquisite statuette represents Osiris sitting, his feet resting on a rectangular base with a tenon. His body is enveloped in a tightly fitting mummy gown leaving exposed only his hands holding a crook and a flail; he wears an atef-crown with ram's horns and uraeus, a pleated artificial beard, a broad collar and bracelets. The eyes, eyebrows, beard and its strings, collar, bracelets, elements of the attributes are inlaid with gold. The statuette is an outstanding example of Saite metalwork.

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Recorded in the Golenischeff catalogue of 1891.

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Golenischeff W., Ermitage Imperial. Inventaire de la collection egyptienne. S.l., 1891, pp.24-25, no.208.
Matthieu M.E., Pavlov V.V., Pamyatniki iskusstva drevnego Egipta v museyah Sovetskogo  Soyuza. Moscow, 1958, no.91.
Matthieu M.E., Iskusstvo drevnego Egipta. Moscow, 1961, p.499, pl.246.
Landa N.B., Lapis I.A., Egyptian Antiquities in the Hermitage. Leningrad, 1974, pl.129.

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Preservation: 
The ends of the both horns of the crown are lost.

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