stele of Horus
An item at Louvre
Decoration: on the front; divinity slaying harmful animals; Harpocrates (child god, naked, standing on, 2, crocodile, holding, serpent, scorpion, 2, oryx); head of Bes (at the top) on the back; solar disk with uraeus
Department of Egyptian Antiquities
An exhibit at Louvre
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).