curved stele with pyramidion

curved stele with pyramidion

An item at Louvre

Decoration: 1st register; adoration scene (2, symmetrical); man (standing, adoring); Osiris (left, seated); Anubis (right, dog-headed god, seated) 2nd register; lustration; funeral meal; woman (standing, holding, bouquet, vase hes, in front); couple (seated); child (seated) 3rd register; bow making; man (3, seated); bow; staff; adze; chariot (part of) 4th register; adoration scene; man (kneeling, adoring) in the arch; winged sun disk with uraeus at the top; man (2, kneeling, adoring); sign of the horizon; Anubis (2, dog, lying on, base)


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).