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arched stele

arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: offering of incense; man (standing, pleated loincloth, shirt with pleated sleeves, shaved head, offering, incense); Re-Horakhty (falcon-headed god, seated, shroud, solar disk, holding flagellum, heka scepter); offering table; nefer sign (flanked by); wedjat eye (2, in the arch); winged solar disk with uraeus (in the arch); sign of the West; sign of the East (pillar of heaven, carrying, sign of heaven)

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).