Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Figure of Osiris

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1375Ea-b. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1375Ea-b
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period to Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26, or later
Date: 4th century B.C.E. or later
Date range: 399 BCE – 301 BCE
Materials: ['Wood', 'calcium ground', 'gold alloy leaf', 'copper alloy', 'polychromy']
Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 6.4 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Caption: Figure of Osiris, 4th century B.C.E. or later. Wood, calcium ground, gold alloy leaf, copper alloy, polychromy, 8 15/16 x 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 in. (22.7 x 6.4 x 4.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1375Ea-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A gilded standing mummiform figure with a dark face and headdress, holding a small object or projecting element at the chest; likely representing Osiris based on the museum catalogue.

The image shows a small, front-facing full-figure sculpture standing upright on a rectangular base. The figure is painted/gilded overall, with extensive loss and abrasion revealing darker underlayers. The head is modeled with a dark, inset face and a rounded, lappeted/headdress-like crown. The body is rendered in a mummiform/ritual manner with pleated or segmented collar and upper-body detailing. At the chest there is a small raised element (possibly an attribute or hands/arms clasped), though the exact form is indistinct due to damage. No clear hieroglyphic inscriptions or cartouches are visible on the figure’s front in the provided image. The catalogue materials list gilding and metal components; visually, a strong gold/yellow surface with weathering is consistent with metal leaf or gilded coating, and darker areas suggest a mixed substrate and underpainting. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

religious Late Period to Ptolemaic Period (broad, consistent with catalogue; specific dynasty unclear from image alone) poor

Deities Osiris (attributed by catalogue; identification visually consistent with mummiform, headdressed standing figure, though exact attribute details are unclear)

Materials gold-colored surface/gildingdark pigmentwood/wooden core (inferred from catalogue; not directly confirmable in image)

Connections

Found at Saqqara

Deities Osiris

Materials Wood Gold Dark Pigment

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1375Ea-b tier-2
BKM-Object 117926 tier-2

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Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.