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An item at Louvre

uraeus (2, red crown, white crown); with bail (on the reverse); pierced (5) Decoration: at the top; breastfeeding of the child god; goddess (standing, pschent crown, breastfeeding); child god (standing, naked, red crown, in); chapel (column) at the bottom; child god seated on a lotus (lunar disk, finger in mouth, in, thicket of papyrus); Khonsu (?)


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).