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arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: reception of the dead; Thoth (ibis-headed god, standing, presenting); man (standing, loincloth, in front); falcon-headed god (standing, atef crown, shroud); Isis (winged goddess, sign of Isis, presenting, wedjat eye, nefer sign, neb sign); the four sons of Horus (standing); winged solar disk with uraeus (in the arch); frame of alternating rectangles

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).