Archaeologists Have Discovered Two Ancient Egyptian Bronze Figurines Depicting Osiris During Excavations in the Village of Kluczkowice in Opole Lubelskie County, Poland.Image Credit : Dr. Lukasz Miechowicz
Posted on 05/10/2023 11:11:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The finds are part of a deposit which are believed to be from a collection owned by the Kleniewski family, who lived in the Palace of Kluczkowice until the German invasion of Poland during WW2.
According to diaries written by Maria Kleniewska, she describes visiting Egypt in 1904 and spending four months in Cairo and visiting Alexandria. What happened to Maria after the war is unknown, her husband died in WW1, whilst her son who inherited the estate was killed in WW2.
The researchers suggest that the family may have hidden the artefacts to safeguard them from the German SS in 1942, or just after the war when the palace furnishings and collections were looted and scattered...
The artefacts were sent to the Voivodeship Office for the Protection of Monuments in Lublin for verification, which determined that the two figurines depicted Osiris, the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion.
A third figurine from the deposit was identified as depicting a bust of Bacchus, the Roman equivalent of Dionysus, associated with winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.
Working in cooperation with the National Museum in Lublin and the Department of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw, the Osiris figurines have been dated to the 1st millennium BC, while the bust of Bacchus has been dated to the 1st century AD and was likely part of a tripod, similar to an example found during the 18th century near Mount Vesuvius in Italy.
The researchers also discovered part of a richly decorated ceremonial sword from the 17th century, which may have been a colichemarde, a popular short sword that first appeared in 1680...
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Archaeologists Have Discovered Two Ancient Egyptian Bronze Figurines Depicting Osiris During Excavations in the Village of Kluczkowice in Opole Lubelskie County, Poland.Image Credit : Dr. Lukasz Miechowicz
Isn’t that an odd place to find these?
Or just read the article.
Splains much. It does.......................
UPDATED 9 MAY, 2023 - 22:58 NATHAN FALDE
Eight-Year-Old Norwegian Girl Finds 3,700-Year-Old Stone Dagger at School
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/stone-dagger-norway-0018421
That is how you can tell how old a god was. Their stories got more and more convoluted.
“Eight-Year-Old Norwegian Girl Finds 3,700-Year-Old Stone Dagger at School”
...then gets expelled due to “zero tolerance” laws.
According to ancient Egyptian mythology, you won’t find Osiris’ thingy because it was eaten by a fish after his brother killed him.
:^) If I found one in the yard here, *that* would be an odd place to find ‘em. These artifacts are fragments of a modern private collection that was broken up, looted, and/or destroyed in WWII.
Or I could have read the topic...
Hi.
In the fwiw department I always post before reading the article.
Looks like I’m in good company.
5.56mm
In vino veritas.
Worldwide headlines for petty theft.
I thought this article would have been something to do with newly discovered trading between Vikings and Egypt from several thousands of years BC. But no! Some tourist 100 years ago may have stolen something. OMG
Why are you leaping to that conclusion?
At that time you could go and buy any number of antiquities quite legally.
In fact you still can.
Sorry! Read it wrong. Thought there was an implication that it was looted.
Reread the article
I was wondering if I had missed something in the article.
It would have been a far cooler story if the figurine had arrived in Poland three thousand years ago but alas...
Inka-dink.
It’s remarkable how much better the show got after that summer replacement first season.
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