Statuette of Osiris

A small green-patinated bronze statuette of the god Osiris, shown mummiform with crossed arms gripping the crook and flail across the chest. He wears the tall atef crown with side plumes and a plaited divine beard, standing on a rectangular base against a dark gradient backdrop.

Look closer: Reddish corroded patches on the rectangular base of the statuette.

Artist

Unknown

Date

664–332 BCE

Medium

Bronze or copper alloy

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2667 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910