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An item at Louvre

Traces of a closing system: mortises and recesses. Decoration: at the top; frieze of uraeus (solar disc); winged solar disc with uraeus (5, superimposed) at the bottom; king (4, standing, loincloth with triangular front, animal tail, blue crown, arms raised, carrying, sign from the sky); frieze of prophylactic signs

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).

Louvre