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Sarcophagus of Dioskouridès

Sarcophagus of Dioskouridès

An item at Louvre

man (shroud, tripartite wig, pectoral, false rolled beard) Decoration: Imentet (nude, Hathoric headdress); Nut (nude, arms raised, Hathoric headdress); serpent (2, with wings); man (worshipping); series of divinities; bird-ba (with wings, flanked by); Isis; Nephthys; scarab; the four sons of Horus; scene of worship (2, symmetrical); Anubis (dog, 2, lying down); dead being watered by the tree goddess; Anubis (dog-headed god, standing, holding, mummy) (Imentet and Nut inside-Anubis and mummy exterior decoration of the vat the rest exterior decoration of the lid)

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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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).