Osiris-Iah

A small bronze statuette of an Egyptian god, its surface mottled green with corrosion, shows a figure with arms crossed over the chest and a disk set between curved horns on the head. The figure rests on a rectangular base, shown here on a white plinth against a plain grey backdrop.

Look closer: Patches of green verdigris spread down the figure's left side and across the base.

Artist

Unknown

Date

664–332 BCE

Medium

Cupreous metal, precious metal leaf

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2667 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Ethel McCullough Scott, John G. McCullough, and Edith McCullough Irons, 1972