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amulet; pendant

An item at Louvre

chen sign (pierced) Decoration: child god seated on a lotus; Re-Horakhty (child god, naked, finger in mouth, lock of childhood, holding, heqa scepter, seated on, lotus flower, flanked by); winged serpent (2, solar disk, erect, on, serekh); Hathor (?); Maat (?); solar disk with uraeus (at the top) (from text-from iconography)

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).