arched stele

arched stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: offering of Maat; king (standing, loincloth with triangular front, animal tail, usekh necklace, pschent crown, offering, Maat, in front); Amun Re (seated, crown of Amun, holding, was scepter); Mut (seated, robe, vulture headdress, pschent crown, holding, papyriform scepter); Khonsu (seated, lock of childhood, hemhem crown, holding, was scepter) in the arch; winged solar disk with uraeus; flagellum (2); sign of the starry sky (according to text)

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).