Collection Online as of May 26, 2022

Head of Osiris

664-525 BC

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Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 26 or later

Bronze, hollow cast

Overall: 11 x 7.7 x 4.6 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/16 x 1 13/16 in.)

Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.778.1

Location

not on view

Provenance

Said to be from Zagazig (doubtful). Purchased from R. H. Blanchard, Blanchard's Egyptian Museum, Cairo, by John L. Severance

Citations

Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. Mentioned: p. 86, cat. no. 258 archive.org

Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Reproduced: p. 433; Mentioned: p. 433-434, cat. no. 330

Exhibition history

CMA 1942, no. 258