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

Mummiform Figure of Osiris

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Description

Caption: Mummiform Figure of Osiris, 305–30 B.C.E.. Wood, plaster, pigment, Figure: 17 1/8 x 3 3/4 x 2 3/8 in. (43.5 x 9.5 x 6 cm) Base: 2 15/16 x 5 5/16 x 9 13/16 in. (7.5 x 13.5 x 25 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1377E. (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 dark, mummiform (mummylike) standing figure with a human head shown in profile, preserved as a painted/covered sculpture on a rectangular base.

The image shows a single standing, mummiform deity figure: the body is elongated and wrapped like a mummy, with a stylized human head wearing a smooth head covering/headdress. The face is slightly turned to the viewer’s left, with defined eye and facial markings. The figure’s surface is dark (likely blackened from pigment or coating) with lighter paint remnants and weathering across the torso and arms. The figure stands on a rectangular, stepped base that also bears traces of paint and wear. No legible hieroglyphs or cartouches are clearly readable in the photograph; faint surface markings on the torso could be decorative but cannot be confidently identified as specific signs. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text.

religious Ptolemaic Period (catalogue ground truth; not verifiable from image alone) fragmentary
Deities Osiris (catalogue ground truth; not clearly verifiable in this image)
Materials wood (uncertain; figure is dark and appears carved/covered)plaster (uncertain; painted/covered surface)pigment (paint traces in black/white/gray)

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Deities Osiris
Materials Wood

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1377E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117928 tier-2
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