Statuette of Osiris-Iah
Late Period, Dynasty 26–30, about 664–332 BCE
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 15 × 7 × 5.5 cm (5 7/8 × 2 3/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Robert H. Fleming
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
According to the Egyptian religion, gods could combine with each other to form composite deities. The complex crown of this bronze statuette has characteristics of the god Osiris, as well as the ibis-headed moon god Thoth. This statuette was dedicated to the god by a man named Pamu.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
