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cardboard envelope

cardboard envelope

An item at Louvre

Decoration: outside 1st register; winged goddess (2, standing, solar disk, protecting); Isis (?); Nephthys (?) 2nd register; Horus (standing); Thoth (standing) 3rd register; Isis (knot of Isis, disc-shaped horns, flanked by); genius (2) 4th register; bird (wings spread); genius (crouching, in, sign of water); dog (2, standing on, divine ensign) inside 1st register; djed pillar (flanked by); Thoth; Horus 2nd register; Nut (standing, arms raised, solar disk); Ra; Atum; Khnum 3rd register; genius (crouching, in, sign of water); ankh sign; Hapy (?) (the streams of water end with signs of life inside)

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).