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aegis and necklace counterweight

An item at Louvre

goddess (head of, tripartite wig, uraeus, modius with uraeus frieze, disc-shaped horns, usekh necklace, flanked by, 2, falcon head); uraeus (2, solar disc) Decoration: at the top; Isis (standing, in, chapel: uraeus frieze, papyriform column, Hathoric capital); at the bottom; Horus (falcon, in, papyrus thicket) (engraved on the counterweight)


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).