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The Usekh or Wesekh is a personal ornament, a type of broad collar or necklace, familiar to many because of its presence in images of the ancient Egyptian elite. Deities, women, and men were depicted wearing this jewelry. One example can be seen on the famous gold mask of Tutankhamun. The ancient word wsแบ can mean "breadth" or "width" in the ...
The pectorals of ancient Egypt were a form of jewelry, often in the form of a brooch. They are often also amulets, and may be so described. They were mostly worn by richer people and the pharaoh. One type is attached with a nah necklace, suspended from the neck and lying on the breast. Statuary from the Old Kingdom onwards shows this form.
Menat. The Malqata Menat, late Eighteenth Dynasty. An elaborate menat necklace depicted in a relief at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. In ancient Egyptian religion, a menat (Ancient Egyptian: mnj.t (๐ ๐๐๐๐ง), Arabic: ู ูุงุช) was a necklace closely associated with the goddess Hathor. [1][2]
Scarabs are identified as the dung beetle Scarabaeus sacer, pictured here rolling a ball of dung. In ancient Egypt, the Scarab Beetle was a highly significant symbolic representation of the divine manifestation of the morning sun. The Egyptian god Khepri was believed to roll the sun across the sky each day at daybreak.
Jewellery. Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.
Egyptian statuette of Osiris with phallus and amulets The phallus played a role in the cult of Osiris in ancient Egyptian religion . When Osiris' body was cut in 14 pieces, Set scattered them all over Egypt, and his wife Isis retrieved all of them except one, his penis, which a fish swallowed; Isis made him a wooden replacement.
Hedjet. The hedjet, also known as hdt, is the crown worn by the king of Upper (Southern) Egypt. It resembles a bowling pin and is also called the “White One.”. In addition, this crown is one half of the double crown, the pschent. No crowns are known to have been found in any archeological digs.
Neues Museum, Berlin. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche (/ kษหrหtuหส / kar-TOOSH) is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. [ 1 ] The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the feature did not come into common use until ...