A bronze statuette of Osiris, Egyptian, Late Dynastic to Hellenistic period, 664 to 31 BCE, from the Cesnola Collection. The Metropolitan Museum's own title and controlled-vocabulary tag both name the figure as Osiris. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 74.51.5584, Greek and Roman Art department, purchased by subscription 1874 to 76.
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Devotional FunctionSmall bronze statuettes of Osiris of exactly this Late Period type were mass produced as votive offerings, purchased by pilgrims and deposited in quantity at the god's own cult centers such as Abydos in fulfillment of a vow or a request, a practice documented by the large hoards of near identical Osiris bronzes archaeologists have recovered from favissae, temple pits used to bury offerings no longer in active use. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Osiris directly: "A bronze statuette of Osiris, Egyptian, Late Dynastic to Hellenistic period, 664 to 31 BCE, from the Cesnola Collection."
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The Metropolitan Museum's own title, "Bronze statuette of Osiris," names the subject outright, and the museum's own Getty AAT and Wikidata linked tag confirms the identification.
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