Egyptian Limestone Carved Relief with Osiris and Isis (700 BC - 30 BC)

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Description: Late period, ca. 700 to 30 BC

Squared section of light colored limestone showing a full figure of the striding Osiris at left. He wears the crown of Upper Egypt, a knee-length kilt and extends his graceful hands towards Isis at right. She wields a thin staff and wears a sun disc crown. One leg and left arm are obliterated. Background shows a grid pattern from which to follow the strict cannon of proportion famous in Egyptian art. Intact for the fragment it is.