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An item at Louvre

On the sides, traces of tenons indicating that the plaque must have belonged to a box cut in modern times; hanging hole at the top. Decoration: Amset (standing, holding, strip of cloth)

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).