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Man Holding a Shrine Containing a Figure of Osiris

Accession: 22.196
Dynasty: 26th Dynasty (?); Ptolemaic (?)
Date: mid 7th-late 1st century BCE (Late Period-Ptolemaic; Saite (?))
Date range: 664 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['speckled black granite']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Man Holding a Shrine Containing a Figure of Osiris (22.196). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220390

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Description

<p>This speckled black granite statue depicts a man holding a shrine containing a figure of Osiris. The man has hollow eyes for inlay. The piece has an inscription on the back and below the shrine. The piece has been repaired and broken and has feet broken off. The piece is either from the Saite or Ptolemaic periods.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.196' rel='external'>Man Holding a Shrine Containing a Figure of Osiris</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1

English description

[On back and below shrine, inscription with badly cut signs; illegible]

Connections

Deities Osiris

Cross-references (2)

Walters-AccNum 22.196 tier-2
Walters-id 27838 tier-2

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