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arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: Toutou (sphinx, uraeus, standing, on, base, flanked by); Osiris (standing, atef crown, shroud, holding, flagellum, heqa scepter); Neith (standing, red crown, robe, holding, papyriform scepter, ankh sign); was scepter (2) in the arch; winged solar disk with uraeus

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).