Osiride Figure

Osiride Figure

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This handsome figure was excavated among burials in reused tombs south of the Step Pyramid. The figure had traces of a pitch or bitumen coating in areas, has an integral tang beneath the feet, and a hole for an attribute on its head: all these features point to its likely having been a figure of Ptah-Sokar Osiris.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.