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Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris

Ancient Egyptian · Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Provenance

Ownership history

Christie’s, New York, Antiquities, June 5, 1998, lot 61 (unsold). Acquired by Phoenix Ancient Art, S.A., Geneva, Switzerland; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, 2002 – February 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt After Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013 - July 27, 2014.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Literature

Published references

Christie's, New York, Antiquities, sale cat. (Christie's, New York, June 5, 1998), lot 61 (ill.).
Elizabeth Feery, “Statue of Osiris,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003), pp. 52-53 (ill.).
Francesca Casadio, Emily Heye, and Karen Manchester, “From the Molecular to the Spectacular: A Statue of Osiris through the Eyes of a Scientist, a Conservator, and a Curator,” in “Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 8–15, figs. 1–10; 104–5.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), p. 64.
Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 33.
Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 44-45 (cat. 2), 110.
Clara Granzotto, Ken Sutherland, Julie Arslanoglu, and Glen Ferguson, “Discrimination of Acacia gums by MALDI-TOF MS: applications to micro-samples from works of art,” Microchemical Journal 144 (2019): 231, 237, 239 (ill.).
Clara Granzotto, Amra Aksamija, Gerjen H. Tinnevelt, Viktoriia Turkina, and Ken Sutherland. 2024. “New Insight from MALDI-TOF MS and Multivariate Data Analysis on the Botanical Origin of Polysaccharide-Based Paint Binders in Ancient Egypt.” Analytical Methods 16 (18): 2959–71.
Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/51"><em>“Cat. 36 Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris,”</em></a> in Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, ed. Ashley F. Arico (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).

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