DOI Artikel:
Majewska, Aleksandra: "Golden Osiris" in the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0068
succeeded in combining the piece's decorative character with its emotional
message. Perfection of its form, means of expression it makes allow for
placing this sculpture among masterpieces and considering it an example of
the highest achievements of Egyptian sculpture.
Osiris, whose complex multi-aspect naturę formed throughout the ages of
the long-lasting process of the development of human ideas on after-death
existence, occupied one of the most prominent positions in the Egyptian
pantheon from the times of the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic and Roman
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message. Perfection of its form, means of expression it makes allow for
placing this sculpture among masterpieces and considering it an example of
the highest achievements of Egyptian sculpture.
Osiris, whose complex multi-aspect naturę formed throughout the ages of
the long-lasting process of the development of human ideas on after-death
existence, occupied one of the most prominent positions in the Egyptian
pantheon from the times of the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic and Roman
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