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heart scarab; burial scarab

heart scarab; burial scarab

An item at Louvre

pierced (front) Decoration: on the front; lunar disk (flanked by); wedjat eye (2); Re-Horakhty (falcon-headed god, shroud, solar disk with uraeus, holding, flagellum, heqa scepter, crouching); Osiris (crouching, shroud, atef crown, holding, heqa scepter, flagellum); on the back; Osiris (standing, shroud, atef crown, flanked by); Isis (winged goddess, sign of Isis, standing on, sign of gold); Nephthys (winged goddess, sign of Nephthys, standing on, sign of gold); winged solar disk; frieze of prophylactic signs (below, on); neb sign; pierced


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).