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An item at Louvre

Decoration: offering scene (1st register); Apis (bull, blanket, standing on corniced base); woman (standing, offering, bouquet); incensing (2nd register); Osiris (seated); man (standing, loincloth with triangular front, shaved head, panther skin, holding censer, vase); woman (2, standing); wedjat eye (at the top, with wings, holding Chen sign)

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).