cardboard envelope

An item at Louvre

Exterior decoration from top to bottom: between the locks of the wig, the deceased seated, knees forward, presents the sign of life in front of a tree?; floral necklace with pendant; ram's head with outstretched wings; below, two vignettes with the four sons of Horus framing the tail and legs of the bird; below, Horus in his falcon form surmounted by the solar disk spreads his wings above two female divinities who cross their wings around a white crown (djed pillar?) surmounted by the two remiges; below, on either side of the pillar, two Horuses wearing the solar disk framing with their wings a wedjat eye; on the feet, Anubis in his jackal form in two symmetrical representations. On the sides a double band of red paint goes around the cardboard .

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