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painted shroud

painted shroud

An item at Louvre

Decoration: reception of the dead; Anubis (dog-headed god, protecting); man (standing, seen from the front, robe, tunic, short curly hair); Osiris (standing, shroud, Nemes headdress); the four sons of Horus (?); griffin; man (standing, tunic, in front); shaduf; papyrus boat (the deceased, Osiris and Anubis are standing on a papyrus boat - the other representations are small vignettes on either side of the dead man)

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).