Lot: 116

77th tribal art auction

Standing figure

Africa-Antiques, Egypt

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Private Collection Berlin, Germany H: 4.7 inch This object is not available anymore.

mid- to end of the 1st millennium B.C.

brass, encrusted patina, traces of corrosion, base;
presumably depicting "Osiris", in shape of a pharaoh with "atef" crown, crook (symbol of the good shepard) and flail (symbol of fertility). He is commonly depicted green (the color of rebirth) or black (alluding to the fertility of the Nile floodplain), in mummiform, wearing the trappings of mummification from chest downward.


Schulz, Regine & Matthias Seidel, Egyptian Art, Baltimore 2009, p. 128 f.