An Egyptian bronze Oxyrhynchus Fish, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Stone perhaps a shield

perhaps a shield

The identification of an amulet unique to private burials of the Late Dynastic and Graeco-Roman Period

On museum-quality custom mount

particularly around the shoulder area

Fremantle Arts Centre

An Egyptian bronze Oxyrhynchus Fish, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Stone perhaps a shieldThe 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