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An item at Louvre

Decoration: music scene; man (seated on stool, playing harp: ram's head, in front); Amun (standing, loincloth, animal tail, crown of Amun, holding was scepter); Mut (standing, robe, pschent crown, holding papyriform scepter); Khonsu (shroud, lunar disk, standing on base) in the arch; winged solar disk with uraeus; sign of the sky (from iconography - harp decorated with a disc-shaped ram's head)

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).