Riria Stele

Riria Stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: 1st register; adoration scene; man (kneeling, shaved head, presenting, fire altar, worshiping); Osiris (seated, in, boat, flanked by); Isis (standing); Horus (man, standing, panther skin, lock of childhood hair) 2nd register; lustration; woman (standing, dress, enveloping wig, holding, ewer); woman (3, standing, worshiping); woman (seated, enveloping wig, breathing, lotus flower); woman (standing); child (standing, naked, shaved head) (from text)

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).