mummy blanket

An item at Louvre

man (shroud, tripartite wig, false straight beard, forehead band, usekh necklace, crossed arms, holding Isis knot) Decoration: outside on the chest; winged scarab; ba-bird (2) on the arms; genie (5, crouching, shroud) on the stomach; scarab (outstretched wings, solar disk, in, boat of Ra); Nut (winged goddess, kneeling, outstretched wings) on the legs; 1st register; right; incensing; man (standing, holding censer, in front); Abydos reliquary; left; lustration; man (standing, holding hes vase, in front); Abydos reliquary; 2nd register; right; man (standing, playing, sistrum, in front); Hathor (standing, disced horns, double upright feather); left; man (standing, offering, vase, in front); Isis (standing, disced horns, double upright feather); 3rd register; right; Thoth (ibis-headed god, lunar disc, holding, sign of the West, in front); genie (standing, shroud, holding, Heqa scepter, Selkis crown); left; Thoth (ibis-headed god, lunar disc, holding, sign of the East, ?, in front); genie (standing, shroud, holding, Heqa scepter); 4th register; Isis (kneeling, sign of Isis, weeping); Nephthys (kneeling, sign of Nephthys, weeping) inside; goddess (large-scale, robe, disced horns, protecting)

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).

Louvre