heart scarab; burial scarab
An item at Louvre
unpierced Decoration: on the front; lunar disk (flanked by); wedjat eye (2); Re-Horakhty (falcon-headed god, shroud, solar disk with uraeus, crouching); Osiris (crouching, shroud, atef crown); on the back; Osiris (standing, shroud, flanked by); Maat (shroud, ostrich feather, holding, ankh sign, crouching, on, sign of gold); Maat (shroud, ostrich feather, crouching, on, djed pillar); unpierced
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).