figure

An item at Louvre

woman (playing, tambourine) (The young woman is dressed in a tunic reaching down to mid-calf, the central part of which is provided with two large pleats, and which reveals a prominent chest through transparency. She wears a large bead of hair, revealing the top of her skull on which the hair is separated into two masses by a middle part, and holds her right arm bent, her hand placed on her waist as well as her musical instrument in her left hand. An amphora with a long, thin neck, originally painted pink, is placed on her left, on a rest. The back of the unworked figurine has a circular vent hole.)

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