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amulet

An item at Louvre

necklace counterweight; with quadruple bail Decoration: 1st register; falcon-headed god (crouching, shroud, solar disk, flanked by); winged serpent (2) 2nd register; serpent (3, with arms, with legs); decans (?); uraeus 3rd register; head of Bes 4th register; monkey (5) at the bottom; Horus (falcon, in, papyrus thicket, pschent crown)

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).