Lintel of Sesostris III
An item at Louvre
Decoration: offering of bread (2, symmetrical); king (standing, shendjit loincloth, animal tail, nemes headdress, offering, bread, cake, in front); Montu (falcon-headed god, standing, loincloth, corselet, animal tail, Montu crown, holding, was scepter, ankh sign) (king represented young and old)
Department of Egyptian Antiquities
An exhibit at Louvre
The collections of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities present the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of Prehistory (around 4,000 BCE) to the Christian era (from the 4th century CE).