papyrus

papyrus

An item at Louvre

Decoration: 1st register; man (standing, in, boat of Re, heron); Osiris (on, canopy, in front of, djed pillar, behind, sign of the East); man (in front of, offering table, worshipping, Osiris, Maat, lion-headed god, solar disk with uraeus) 2nd register; Osiris; Isis; Nephthys; Horus (2) 3rd register; man (one knee on the ground, worshipping, Horus, Thoth, 2, dog-headed god, Anubis, ?, Oupouaout, ?)

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).