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false door stele

false door stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: in the center; funeral meal; man (loincloth, holding linen, sitting on lion-footed chair, in front); offering table below; man (2, standing, symmetrical, loincloth with pointed front, close-cropped hair, usekh necklace, holding staff); man (2, standing, symmetrical, loincloth with triangular front, flared wig, goatee, usekh necklace, holding staff, kherep scepter) (funeral meal in the central placard)

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).