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mummified coffin

mummified coffin

An item at Louvre

Decoration: inside; animated djed pillar; disc-shaped horns; atef crown; gold sign; Nut (raised arms, holding); sun; the four sons of Horus; genius with non-human head (4) (external decoration of the lid: wig, vulture, usekh necklace. Nut, wings spread. 13 columns of text and vignettes illustrating chapters of the Book to come out into the Day, arranged in six symmetrical registers on either side of an Abydenian reliquary. Djed pillar.)

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).