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As early as the Old Kingdom (c. 2670–2195 B.C.), Egyptian artisans fashioned images of deities, kings, and mortals wearing broad collars made of molded tubular and teardrop beads. [1] 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.
sheb-{Gard-unl. 15) (collar, necklace, pectoral) 'None' may have an alternate determinative used to define the word. From the above definitions, it can be seen that the collar, neckband, pectoral, beads, etc., can also include amulets inclusive into the pectoral's iconography.
The use of the Spine with fluid hieroglyph is for words showing "length", as opposed to 'breadth', (Egyptian usekh-(breadth, width)-for example, the Usekh collar).Some example words for 'length' are: to be long, length, to extend, extended; and for to expand, to dilate, words like: joy, gladness, pleasure, delight.
They present a wide golden usekh collar to the princess on a tray. The scene is topped by a frieze of lotus blooms. Above the figures an inscription which names Sitamun as "the eldest daughter of the king whom he loves" and the presentation of the collar is captioned "offering gold of the lands of the South." The whole scene is edged by a frame ...
A major use of the seated-adoration hieroglyph would be as part of the Libationer-Priest (hieroglyph).Although the main man-seated, adoration hieroglyph is not used in the Rosetta Stone, the Libation-priest is used throughout (beginning at the early lines of the first half of the Decree of Memphis (Ptolemy V), the named Nubayrah Stele).
Egyptian men often wear a galabiya, and may wear a taqiya, sometimes with a turban. A sidari may be worn under the galabiya. [25] Egyptian men do not typically wear jewelry in the modern day, though they may wear prayer beads. The modern galabiya has a low scooped neckline with a slit in the bottom. Sometimes this slit has buttons to close it.
A shebyu collar of faience beads from the burial of Amenhotep. The shebyu collar is an ancient Egyptian necklace composed of one or more strands of disc beads. Collars specifically called shebyu by the ancient Egyptians are the two-stranded kind given to officials as part of a royal reward. However, the term is used in Egyptology to refer to ...
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, [2] is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot , Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126 .