heart scarab; burial scarab
An item at Louvre
Decoration: on the front; Re (falcon-headed god, shroud, crouching, winged solar disk with uraeus, holding, heqa scepter, flagellum); Osiris (shroud, crouching, pschent crown, heqa scepter); lunar disk; wedjat eye (2); on the back; Osiris (standing, shroud, pschent crown, holding, heqa scepter, flagellum, flanked by); Isis (winged goddess, standing, sign of Isis); Nephthys (winged goddess, standing, sign of Nephthys); pierced (2)
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).