cardboard envelope; human mummy

An item at Louvre

man (shroud, tripartite wig, usekh necklace, pectoral) Decoration: on the head; winged scarab (solar disc) in front; on the neck; Maat (crouching, shroud, ostrich feather, holding, ankh sign) on the chest; ram-headed bird (outstretched wings, solar disc, holding, chen sign, flanked by); serpent (2); falcon (shroud, lying, flagellum, menat necklace) on the belly; welcoming the dead; Horus (falcon-headed god, standing, holding by the hand); man (standing, loincloth, pleated loincloth, shirt with pleated sleeves, perfume cone, in front); Osiris (standing, white crown); Isis (standing, disced horns, holding, menat necklace); Nephthys (standing, sign of Nephthys, holding, menat necklace); chapel (?) on the legs; 1st register; Abydos reliquary (flanked by); falcon (2, on, sign of gold, uraeus sun disk, wings spread, protecting); wedjat eye (2); dog (standing); 2nd register; hippopotamus-headed god (crouching, shroud, holding, knife); monkey-headed god (crouching, shroud, holding, knife); dog-headed god (kneeling, shroud, holding, knife); falcon-headed god (kneeling, shroud, holding, knife) on feet; dog (2, lying, collar) on base; frieze of prophylactic signs behind; djed pillar (large-scale, on, sign of gold, flanked by); non-human-headed genius (4); Isis knot (with arms); sign of the West; nebrid

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).

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