An Egyptian bronze Oxyrhynchus Fish, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Iron some granule loss

some granule loss

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1998 Our Country Then and Now

Artist: Judy Watson Napangardi (c

Provenance: Private collection of Geoffrey Metz

An Egyptian bronze Oxyrhynchus Fish, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Iron some granule lossThe distinctive appearance of this cast bronze fish, wearing a crown of cow horns and the sun disk, easily identifies it as the oxyrhynchus, a common African variety whose name means "pointed nose." The oxyrhynchus is closely associated with the god Osiris, playing an integral role in the events leading up to the resurrection of the god. In the most complete account of the Osiris myth, recorded by the Greek Historian Plutarch in the first to second