An Egyptian Polychrome Wood figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Period, 304-30 B.C.

standing on a rectangular base and wearing a broad beaded and floral collar with Horus-head terminals, tripartite wig bound in a diadem, and crown composed of horns, plumes, and sun-disk, a column of inscription beneath a naiskos containing a winged scarab in front, the back with two columns of inscription, the top of the base with a continuous line of inscription running along the edge and framing three columns of inscription above a single column flanked by Isis and Nephthys, the sides decorated with alternating ankhs and addorsed was-scepters.

Dr. Troutner, Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, prior to 1950
William Arthur Rawlinson (b. 1915), Professor of Biochemistry, University of Melbourne, acquired in the 1950s

Losses to paint along all edges of base, tenon now inserted into base to secure figure appear to be modern; broad vertical crack across shoulder of figure down to left hip, where there is a loss in the wood, red ground on figure has been retouched in several areas, minor flaking overall.
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For a related example, cf. S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara, and C.H. Roehrig, Mummies and Magic: the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, no. 144.