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pointed pyramidion

pointed pyramidion

An item at Louvre

Decoration: Khepri (front face, top, scarab, on, chen sign, in, boat of Re); man (below, kneeling, loincloth with a puffed front, worshipping); Atum (right face, top, solar disk with uraeus, seated, in, boat of Re, holding, ankh sign); man (below, kneeling, loincloth with a puffed front, worshipping); Re (back face, top, solar disk with uraeus, seated, in, boat of Re, holding, ankh sign); man (below, kneeling, loincloth with a puffed front, worshipping); sign of the horizon (left face, top); man (below, kneeling, loincloth with a puffed front, worshipping)

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).