Slab Socks
Description: One of my favorite sections of the Louvre is The Department of Egyptian Antiquities. It comprises over 50,000 pieces, includes artifacts from the Nile civilizations (which date from 4,000 BC to the 4th century). The collection is among the world's largest, and it overviews Egyptian life spanning Ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, Coptic art, and the Roman, Ptolemaic, and Byzantine periods. This is a stele of Hathor and Seti. A stele is a stone slab or a wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide. These were erected in the ancient world as a monument. Grave steles were often used for funerary or commemorative purposes. They were also used as ancient Greek and Roman government notices or as boundary markers to ...
Other Treasures Of The Louvres - 7 - Hathor And Seti © Socks
by Prince John Photography
$14 $20
