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mummified coffin

mummified coffin

An item at Louvre

man (shroud, tripartite wig, usekh necklace) Decoration: on lid; outside 1st register; Abydos reliquary (flanked by); ba-bird (2, drinking); Horus (falcon-headed god, standing, protecting); Thoth (ibis-headed god, standing, protecting); the four sons of Horus (standing) 2nd register; weighing of heart 3rd register; embalming 4th register; Osiris (shroud, white crown, standing, in, tree, flanked by); Thoth (ibis-headed god, standing); priest (man, standing) on ​​feet; Sokar (falcon, shroud); falcon (wings spread, protecting); wedjat eye on vat; outside; djed pillar (no decoration inside)

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).