Stele of Queen Nubkhas

Stele of Queen Nubkhas

An item at Louvre

Decoration: offering of bread (2, symmetrical, in the center); consecration of offerings; queen (standing, dress, tripartite wig, vulture headdress, offering, bread); Khenty-Imentyu (shroud, white crown, standing on, base); Hathor (standing, disced horns); winged solar disk with uraeus (in the arch)

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).