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arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: scene of worship; man (kneeling, loincloth, ritual scarf, forehead band, worshipping); Apis (bull, standing, uraeus); solar disk with uraeus (in the arch); sign of the sky (equipped with stars, in the arch)

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).