crowning block; wall relief
An item at Louvre
Decoration: Amun (crouching, shroud, crown of Amun, holding, was scepter); royal sphinx (lying on, cornice base, pschent crown, presenting, vase); winged solar disk with uraeus; was scepter (2, holding); sign of the sky
Department of Egyptian Antiquities
An exhibit at Louvre
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).