Statuette of Osiris-Iah

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Arts of Africa

Late Period, Dynasty 26–30, about 664–332 BCE

Egyptian

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Statuette of Osiris-Iah
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 664 BCE–332 BCE
Medium: Copper alloy
Inscriptions: base inscribed
Dimensions: 15 × 7 × 5.5 cm (5 7/8 × 2 3/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Robert H. Fleming
Reference Number: 1894.259
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 103.
Bodil Hornemann, Types of Ancient Egyptian Statuary, vol. 3 (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1957), no. 726 (as Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, 18046).
J. Gwyn Griffiths, “Osiris and the Moon in Iconography,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 62 (1976), 153-54.

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
The Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt After Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013 - July 27, 2014; traveled to New York City, NY, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, September 16, 2014 - January 4, 2015.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Robert H. Fleming.

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