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wall relief; crowning block

wall relief; crowning block

An item at Louvre

Decoration: Hathor (crouching, shroud, disced horns, uraeus, vulture headdress, holding papyriform scepter); Sematawy (child god, crouching, pschent crown, lock of childhood hair, holding was scepter); was scepter (2, carrying); sign from the sky (from text)

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).