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arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: lustration; woman (standing, dress, short wig, headband, holding, 2, situla); Apis (bull, shroud, solar disk with uraeus, lying on, corniced base); offering table; decoration on the facade of a palace (below) (from text)

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).