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An item at Louvre

king (kneeling, arms forward, shendjit loincloth, nemes headdress, uraeus) (arms bent, stretched forward, palms facing each other. Details of the loincloth and headdress incised. The king must have been presenting something.)

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).