arched stele

arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: king (standing, shendjit loincloth, pschent crown, holding, was scepter, ankh sign); queen (standing, dress, double right feather, right arm raised); Harpocrates (child god, standing, naked, finger to mouth, lock of childhood hair, pschent crown, holding, ankh sign); child god (standing, naked, finger to mouth, hemhem crown, holding, ankh sign); ram-headed god (standing, atef crown, holding, was scepter); winged solar disk with uraeus (in the arch) (Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III)

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).