house stele

An item at Louvre

Decoration: door (flanked by); man (right, standing, arms dangling, loincloth, close-cropped hair, usekh necklace); man (left, standing, left arm folded over chest, loincloth, short curly wig, usekh necklace); man (3, standing, small-scale) (the 3 small-scale men are engraved on the doorposts and in the door sign)

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).

Louvre