funeral box with cornice
An item at Louvre
missing background Decoration: front face; 1st register; Hapi (god with monkey's head, standing, shroud, holding ostrich feather); Qebehsenuf (god with falcon's head, standing, shroud, holding ostrich feather); 2nd register; frieze of prophylactic signs; djed pillar; Isis knot back face; 1st register; Amset (standing, shroud, holding ostrich feather); Duamutef (god with dog's head, standing, shroud, holding ostrich feather); 2nd register; frieze of prophylactic signs; djed pillar; Isis knot right face; door left face; djed pillar (equipped with arms, holding heqa scepter, flagellum, atef crown) at the top; khekeru frieze at the bottom; 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).