lamp with rounded beak and double scrolls
An item at Louvre
Decoration: Hermes (lion skin, pillar, man's head, flanked by); amphora; tree; sun; cross (Hermian pillar of Heracles)
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).