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

Seated Statue of Osiris Carrying a Crook and Flail

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.430E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.430E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26, or later
Date: 664–332 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Bronze', 'electrum']
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 6.2 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Seated Statue of Osiris Carrying a Crook and Flail (37.430E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18394

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Caption: Seated Statue of Osiris Carrying a Crook and Flail, 664–332 B.C.E.. Bronze, electrum, 8 1/16 × 2 7/16 × 3 11/16 in. (20.5 × 6.2 × 9.3 cm) H. w/tang: 8 11/16 in. (22 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.430E. (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 small seated male deity/king figure is shown in profile, with a stylized face, wearing a kilt and a headdress with two side elements, and holding/standing with flail- and crook-like attributes.

The image shows a dark metal statue (patinated surface) of a standing-seated Osirian-style figure. The head has a central face with incised features and a headdress/hat with two projecting horizontal elements at the sides. The figure wears a tight kilt; the torso and arms are rendered schematically. On the figure’s left side (viewer’s right) there appears to be a staff/crook-like implement held low across the body. A second attribute near the hands/arms resembles a crook/flail form but is not clear enough to identify specific tool details with certainty from this single image. The base is a simple rectangular block. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or modern inscriptions are visible, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.

royal Late Period (as catalogued) good

Deities Osiris

Materials unknown dark metalpatinated surface

Connections

Deities Amun Osiris

Materials Bronze Patinated Surface

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.430E tier-2
BKM-Object 117082 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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.