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An item at Louvre

woman (seated, breastfeeding); child; Béset (Figurine representing a woman seated cross-legged breastfeeding her child. This woman wears a large, high headdress formed of a draped veil which covers her hair and arms, as well as part of her legs. Flat back with a vent hole. )

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).