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fire altar

fire altar

An item at Louvre

Decoration: front face; incensing; man (standing, pleated loincloth with flap, shirt with pleated sleeves, wig with triangular sides, sandals, holding, hand-held censer) left face; offering incense; man (standing, loincloth, ritual scarf, shaved head, sandals, presenting, incense) back face; Osiris (standing, shroud, atef crown, holding, flagellum, heqa scepter); offering table (ewer, lotus flower) right face; Re-Horakhty (falcon-headed god, standing, loincloth, corselet, animal tail, solar disk with uraeus, holding, ankh sign, was scepter); offering table (ewer, flower)

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).