Statue, votive / god

Description

Votive statue in unfired clay of the god Osiris shown mummiform on a maat pedestal with painted details: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Abydos, Umm el-Qaab, New Kingdom, c.1550-715 BC

Museum reference

A.1910.111.3

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Statue, votive / god

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Clay

Collection place(s)

Umm el-Qaab, Abydos, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• The Tomb

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Ute von Effland, Julia Budka and Andreas Effland (2010) 'Studien zum Osiriskult in umm el-Qaab/Abydos' in MDAIK 66, pp 19-26. Effland, A (2014) 'Abydos: Von der Fruhzeit bis zur Zeitenwende'. In Archaeologie in Agypten, Volume 2, June 2014. pp.24-27.

On display

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