An Egyptian Painted Wood Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Late Period, 26th Dynasty, Circa 664-525 B.C. Height 19 1/2 inches. Property from an Important Midwestern Collector Provenance: Towry White Collection. Fitzwilliam Museum Collection. Parke-Bernet, New York, 4 December 1969, Lot 75. Leonard Sheriff Collection, New York; thence by decent. Note: Figures of the syncretistic deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris were popular tomb furnishings from the end of the New Kingdom through the Ptolemaic era. A common occurrence in later Egyptian religious liturgy, Ptah-Sokar-Osiris was a conflation of three separate deities, all of whom were identified with fertility and regeneration as well as death and burial.