



funeral box with cornice
An item at Louvre
Anubis (dog, lying down, collar) Decoration: front face; 1st register; the two Anubis (dog-headed god, standing, symmetrical, carrying, vase, strip of cloth); doors of the afterlife; sign of the sky; 2nd register; mummy (flanked by); Isis (standing, protecting); Nephthys (standing, protecting); at the top; winged solar disk with uraeus back face; 1st register; Maat (winged goddess, standing, solar disk, holding, ostrich feather, flanked by); wedjat eye (2); 2nd register; frieze of prophylactic signs right face; left face; 1st register; the four sons of Horus (standing); 2nd register; guardian genies of the afterlife; decoration on the facade of a palace
Department of Egyptian Antiquities
An exhibit at Louvre
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).