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arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: Apis (bull, lying on, corniced base, disced horns, uraeus, collar, falcon, shroud); offering table; vulture (in the arch, wings spread, holding, 2, chen sign); sign of the sky (according to text - on the nape of the neck, a falcon with open wings resting on the collar)

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).