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An item at Louvre

biface; multiple piercing Decoration: on the front; scene of worship; man (standing, worshipping, pleated loincloth, shirt with pleated sleeves, wig with cuffs); Anubis (dog, lying on, base, necklace, flagellum, kherep scepter) on the back; series of divinities; Nephthys (crouching, shroud); Isis (crouching, shroud); Horus (falcon-headed god, crouching, shroud, pschent crown); Osiris (crouching); frame of alternating rectangles

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).