Man Holding a Shrine Containing a Figure of Osiris

Description This speckled black granite statue depicts a man holding a shrine containing a figure of Osiris. The man has hollow eyes for inlay. The piece has an inscription on the back and below the shrine. The piece has been repaired and broken and has feet broken off. The piece is either from the Saite or Ptolemaic periods.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/12/1964	Examination	exhibition

Exhibitions

• Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me. The Jewish Museum, New York. 1964.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Inscription] On back and below shrine

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters