Egyptian Bronze Sculptures 183 EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS, the principal afterworld deity, mummiform, wearing the atef-crown with ram’s horns. Late Period, 712-30 BC. H. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.) Ex Eugenie Propp collection, New York, acquired from the Dorotheum, Vienna, in 1975. 184 EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS, mummiform, wearing the atefcrown with ram’s horns. Late Dynastic Period, 664-343 BC. H. 6 1/4 in. (16 cm.) Ex French collection. 185 EGYPTIAN BRONZE PTAH STANDING ATOP A STEPPED BASE The patron of artists and craftsmen, mummiform, holding the was-scepter. Ex French collection. Late Dynastic Period, 664-343 BC. H. 3 1/2 in. (8.8 cm.) Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XVI, 2005, no. 148. 186 EGYPTIAN BRONZE BES STANDING ON A PAPYRUS COLUMN MOUNTED ON A PEDESTAL The dwarf god, with his right arm raised, was the protector of women in childbirth and the dispeller of nightmares. Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 BC. H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) Ex collection of Wilhelm Horn (18701959), Berlin, acquired in Cairo in 1932. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIII, 2002, no. 167.
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