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arched stele

arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: worship scene; woman (standing, arms dangling, dress, tripartite wig, perfume cone); serpent (erect, atef crown, beard); Osiris (standing); god (shroud, perfume cone, strip of cloth); serpent-headed god (shroud, perfume cone, strip of cloth); sign of the West (2, pillar of heaven, ?) in the arch; sign of heaven; 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).