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funeral box

funeral box

An item at Louvre

missing cover Decoration: front face; lustration; Anubis (dog-headed god, standing, loincloth, sandals, presenting, 2, ewer, in front); Amset (standing); Qebehsenuef (standing); at the top; barque of Re (?); series of divinities (in, divine barque); uraeus frieze; at the bottom; frieze on palace facade back face; lustration; Anubis (in front); Hapi (standing); Duamutef (standing); at the top; barque of Re; uraeus frieze; at the bottom; frieze on palace facade right; 1st register; radiant solar disk (flanked by); ba-bird (2); 2nd register; animated djed pillar left; 1st register; lustration; Thoth (ibis-headed god, standing, holding, ewer); Horus (?); 2nd register; frieze of prophylactic signs; djed pillar; Isis knot (2); 3rd register; djed pillar (flanked by); ba-bird (2); 4th register; welcoming the dead; Anubis (presenting); man (standing, shroud, in front); Osiris; Isis; below; frieze on the facade of a palace

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).