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An item at Louvre

character (seated); lower part Decoration: series of divinities; goddess with lioness's head; Sekhmet (?); serpent (goddess, coiled, with arms); serpent with legs; winged serpent; personification of decan; god with dog's head; god with falcon's head (divided into registers around the edge of the seat)

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).