mummiform sarcophagus lid

mummiform sarcophagus lid

An item at Louvre

Decoration: usekh necklace (frieze of flowers, frieze of drop-shaped pearls); winged solar disk (?); falcon (?); winged scarab (?) Hapi (god with a monkey's head, standing, holding an ostrich feather, a sign of life); Anubis (god with a dog's head, standing, holding a was scepter, a sign of life); Qebehsenuf (god with a falcon's head, standing, holding a was scepter)

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).