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cylinder seal

cylinder seal

An item at Louvre

pierced Decoration: offering scene; king (standing, blue crown, solar disk); offering table; royal cartouche; queen (standing, holding, ankh sign, disc-shaped horns, double upright feather); hieroglyphs; lotus flower (the king and queen are back to back on either side of a mounted bouquet)

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).