arched stele

arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: adoration scene; lustration; woman (standing, dress, coat, short bulging wig, sandals, breathing, flower); man (standing, loincloth, shaved head, holding, vase, situla, ?, in front); Onouris (standing, loincloth, corselet, crown of Onouris, holding, was scepter, ankh sign); Osiris (standing); Isis (standing, disc-shaped horns) at the bottom; left; woman (sitting on, lion-footed chair, dress, coat, tripartite wig, holding, flower, flagellum) in the arch; sign of the sky; winged solar disk with uraeus; wedjat eye (flanked by); Anubis (dog, 2, lying down) (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).