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pyriform situla

pyriform situla

An item at Louvre

Decoration: funeral meal; incensing; lustration; man (standing, loincloth, close-cropped hair, holding hand-held censer, ewer); offering table; man (panther skin, loincloth, wig in pockets, sitting on chair with lion feet); sign of the starry sky

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).