An Egyptian bronze Oxyrhynchus Fish, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Stone Used as a symbolic object

Used as a symbolic object rather than a functional one

Provenance: Diplomatic private Washington

delicate red

was used to check verticality and was shaped like a set square (two rectangular rods set in an L shape) placed with the junction at the top so a weight on a cord could hang from it

An Egyptian bronze Oxyrhynchus Fish, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Stone Used as a symbolic objectThe 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