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mummified coffin

mummified coffin

An item at Louvre

man (tripartite swollen wig, usekh necklace); beard missing Decoration: weighing of the heart (1st register); work in the fields of the afterlife; reliquary of Abydos; embalming; Anubis; mummy (lying on); embalming bed; dead person watered by the tree goddess; Sokar (presenting, sign of breath); Anubis (dog, lying on, corniced base, flanked by); Apis (2, bull); scarab (on the feet); djed pillar (rear face)

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).