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aegis and necklace counterweight

An item at Louvre

lioness-headed goddess (head of, sun disk, usekh necklace); Bastet (?); uraeus (2, red crown, white crown) Decoration: top; lioness-headed goddess (standing, sun disk with uraeus, holding, scepter) bottom; Horus (falcon, pschent crown, in, papyrus thicket)

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).