Priest in a leopard skin cloak with an inscription and Osiris on his s

A small dark bronze statuette shows a bald, standing male figure with arms at his sides, one fist clenched. He wears a long skirt-like garment and a cloak with incised spotted pattern across the shoulder and chest, while a column of incised figures and signs runs down the front of the skirt. The surface is smooth and dark with worn, reddish patches.

Look closer: A small figure of Osiris is incised on the front of the skirt, below the cloak.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 721–650 BCE

Medium

Leaded bronze

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3791 × 3792 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926