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Hedjet (Ancient Egyptian: πππ, romanized: αΈ₯αΈt, lit. 'White One') is the White Crown of pharaonic Upper Egypt . After the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt , it was combined with the Deshret , the Red Crown of Lower Egypt , to form the Pschent , the double crown of Egypt.
Some Egyptologists have speculated that the Hedjet was made out of leather, felt, or some other fabric. [14] Another possibility is that it was woven like a basket, as the Deshret (Red crown) is known to have been, of plant fiber. A Hedjet with Nekhbet the Vulture goddess next to the head of the cobra goddess is the symbol used to represent the ...
It combined the White Hedjet Crown of Upper Egypt and the Red Deshret Crown of Lower Egypt. The Pschent represented the pharaoh 's power over all of unified Egypt. [ 2 ] It bore two animal emblems: an Egyptian cobra , known as the uraeus , ready to strike, which symbolized the Lower Egyptian goddess Wadjet ; and a vulture representing the Upper ...
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Possibly, as with Arabic, the semivowels /w/ and /j/ (as in English W and Y) could double as the vowels /u/ and /i/. In modern transcriptions, an e is added between consonants to aid in their pronunciation. For example, nfr "good" is typically written nefer. This does not reflect Egyptian vowels, which are obscure, but is merely a modern ...
In this and other examples from the same era, the word is written with a determinative that represents the cap crown, a lower and less elaborate type of crown. The earliest known depiction of the khepresh is on the stela Cairo CG 20517 which dates to the reign of Snaaib , during the Second Intermediate Period .
Atef (Ancient Egyptian: πΏπππ, romanized: κ£tf) is the specific feathered white crown of the ancient Egyptian deity Osiris.It combines the Hedjet, the white crown of Upper Egypt, with curly ostrich feathers on each side of the crown for the Osiris cult.
The Red Crown frequently is mentioned in texts and depicted in reliefs and statues. An early example is the depiction of the victorious pharaoh wearing the deshret on the Narmer Palette. A label from the reign of Djer records a royal visit to the shrine of the Deshret which may have been located at Buto in the Nile delta. [5]