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funeral box with cornice

funeral box with cornice

An item at Louvre

missing cover Decoration: front face; 1st register; the two Anubis (dog-headed god, standing, symmetrical, holding); doors of the afterlife; 2nd register; adoration scene; man (standing, loincloth, shaved head, adoring); Osiris (seated); Isis (standing, sign of Isis); Nephthys (standing, sign of Nephthys); at the top; winged solar disk with uraeus (3, superimposed) back face; 1st register; woman (4, standing, arms raised, carrying, sign of the starry sky); man's head (4, shemes sign); 2nd register; Abydos reliquary (flanked by); Isis (uraeus, sign of Isis); Nephthys (uraeus, sign of Nephthys); 3rd register; djed pillar (man's head, with arms, holding, heqa scepter, flagellum, crown of Taténen, flanked by); Anubis (dog-headed god, standing, worshipping); Harsiesis (falcon-headed god, standing, worshipping) right face; left face; 1st register; frieze of prophylactic signs; 2nd register; series of divinities; 3rd register; the four sons of Horus (standing); 4th register; guardian genies of the afterlife; 5th register; transport of the sarcophagus; decoration 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).