lamp; incense burner
An item at Louvre
horned altar (in two parts: the bottom, a hollowed-out cube, would contain the lamp itself (wick and oil) and the cover, with a sloping roof and aedicules at the four corners, is pierced diagonally with a hanging hole at the top. Two ridges under the roof on the perimeter mark the separation between the chapel and its roof. Pilasters at the four corners (from the base to the ridges).)
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).