rectangular stele with cornice

rectangular stele with cornice

An item at Louvre

Decoration: incensing; lustration; man (standing, robe, shaved head, offering, bouquet, presenting, censer); man (4, standing, worshipping, holding, hes vase); aniconic image of Amun (on, lion-bodied throne); Khonsu (child god, standing, naked, finger in mouth, lunar disc); Isis-Hathor (standing, disc-shaped horns); sign of the union of the two earths above; winged solar disc with uraeus (the worshippers are arranged in 3 registers and face the 3 divine images)

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).