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rectangular stele with cornice; stele with three registers

rectangular stele with cornice; stele with three registers

An item at Louvre

Decoration: 1st register; adoration scene (2, symmetrical); man (2, standing, loincloth with puffed front, shirt with pleated sleeves, worshipping); Osiris (left, standing, in naos); Re-Horakhty (right, falcon-headed god, standing, in naos) 2nd register; funerary meal; lustration; couple (seated, in front); offering table; man (2, standing, holding ewer) 3rd register; group of relatives; figure (4, seated on the ground) at the top; adoration scene (2, symmetrical); man (2, pleated loincloth, shirt with pleated sleeves, kneeling, worshipping); Anubis (left, dog, necklace, lying on a corniced base); Harsiesis (right, falcon-headed sphinx, lying on a corniced base); wedjat eye (2, opposite) (from 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).