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An item at Louvre

woman (playing, tambourine) (Molded figurine of a tambourine player, barefoot, wearing a long draped tunic, and a headdress consisting of a wide ridge on the top of the skull, from which escapes a row of curls around the face, and two long locks on either side of the head. The young woman holds the tambourine against her left shoulder, held by her left hand and beats it with her right hand. A very tall amphora with a thinned neck and a long, pointed base is placed to the left of the figure under the tambourine. The back of the piece, provided with a small circular vent hole, is not worked.)

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).