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Statuette of Osiris

Ancient Egyptian · Late Period, Dynasty 26 or later, 664–332 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago, 1890; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
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, October 8, 2014 - January 4, 2015.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Literature

Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 102, 105.
Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ed., When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Exh. cat. (New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), p. 99, cat. 91.
Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/43"><em>“Cat. 28 Statuette of 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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