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amulet

amulet

An item at Louvre

patèque (dwarf, standing, naked, frontal scarab, necklace, holding, 2, knife, flanked by); falcon (2, on shoulders); goddess (2); Isis (?); Nephthys (?) Decoration: behind; Nefertum (standing, crown of Nefertum) on base; man (2, standing, arms raised); lotus flower; lion; ram; wedjat eye; fish; scarab (Nefertum is on the back - the pantheistic trigram engraved under the base)

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).