Statuette of Harbes with a figure of Osiris

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.

Stone statuette of a standing male figure holding a smaller child-like figure on his forearms, shown against a plain studio background.

The object appears to be a small, dark stone (gray-black) statuette of a human-like deity figure standing upright on a rectangular pedestal. The larger figure has a shaved head, simplified facial features, and a long, draped garment/strap-like garment falling over the torso and legs. The figure holds a smaller, seated or standing child-size figure whose body is angled toward the larger figure; the smaller figure wears a headpiece and appears to have stylized arms/gesture toward its own body. Behind/near the larger figure’s torso there are faint traces of carved details. Along the lower front/edge of the base there are narrow, incised lines that may be inscription but are not legible at this resolution. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The catalogue states this is a “Statuette of Harbes with a figure of Osiris.” In the image, the larger figure is consistent with a male holding an Osiris-like figure, but the exact identity of “Harbes” and the Osiris attributes cannot be confirmed definitively from visible details; the smaller figure could be Osiris or another associated figure, so agreement is only partial.