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571:. The king is most often depicted wearing the Blue Crown in combat and the aftermath of combat scenes. Additionally, the smaller scale king usually wore the Blue Crown when depicted in a protective group of deities. Colossal statues of the king wearing a Blue Crown are extremely rare; the typical royal statue also does not feature a Blue Crown. Also, depictions of the Blue Crown with its Uraeus does not decorate royal tombs until late in the Ramesside Period. The deity-on-earth king was thought to require extra protection in his mortal form, emphasizing the protective qualities of the Uraeus. The Uraeus was usually crafted from precious metals, most commonly gold and less frequently silver, and adorned with gemstones. 606: 262: 122: 330: 36: 20: 2594: 1032: 921: 179: 494:
with Cobra at each base of flag". The story of the Rosetta Stone has the king (the priests of the king) listing his reasons for being honored, and in return, "The Gods and Goddesses (plural)" reward him. The last two-thirds of the Rosetta Stone relates how he will be honored, including erecting the
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wore the uraeus as a head ornament: either with the body of Wadjet atop the head, or as a crown encircling the head; this indicated Wadjet's protection and reinforced the pharaoh's claim over the land. In whatever manner that the Uraeus was displayed upon the pharaoh's head, it was, in effect, part
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Four golden uraei cobra figures, bearing sun disks on their heads, on the reverse side of the throne of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (1346–1337 BC). Valley of the Kings, Thebes, New Kingdom (18th Dynasty)
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traditions, are frequently associated with serpents and are thought to have derived from the concept of uraeus. Multiple-winged uraei amulets are well represented in the land of Israel.
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during the third millennium BCE. Several goddesses associated with or being considered aspects of Wadjet are depicted wearing the uraeus as well.
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The simplest hieroglyph is the "Cobra" (the Uraeus); however there are subcategories, referring to: a goddess, a priestess, the goddess
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Another example of the hieroglyph usage is as adornments upon the hieroglyph for "shrine", and also for "buildings".
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Besides the Uraeus being used as an ornament for statuary or as an adornment on the pharaoh, it also was used for
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Before the New Kingdom Period, the body of the Uraeus coiled around in circles behind its raised head on the
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and was often depicted as a cobra, as she is the serpent goddess. The center of her cult was in
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The Cobra Goddess of Ancient Egypt: Predynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom Periods
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The Golden Uraeus is of solid gold, 6.7 cm (2.6 in), black eyes of
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Ancient Egyptian upright cobra motif signifying authority and divinity
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Later, the pharaohs were seen as a manifestation of the sun god
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At the time of the unification of Egypt, the image of
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inlays, and inlays of turquoise. To mount it on the
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An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, in Two Volumes
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represent the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt.
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Print. 722: 720: 146:) is the stylized, upright form of an 43:'s mummy featuring a uraeus, from the 935: 115: 872:, GmbH, Koln), c 2003, 1999, p. 202. 644:Crown with feathers identified with 877:The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 717: 309:, a snake head of deep ultramarine 13: 825: 324: 14: 2661: 2465:Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld 2460:The Contendings of Horus and Seth 913: 659:– head cloth worn by the nobility 562: 2592: 2508:Beautiful Festival of the Valley 1030: 919: 495:Rosetta Stone, for all to read. 479:), the goddess Isis, and lastly 313:, the flared cobra hood of dark 73: 805: 796: 370:, High Priest of 21st Dynasty, 879:, vol. 89, 2003, pp. 117–141. 787: 778: 769: 760: 751: 742: 729: 695: 675:– Woman or vulture wearing an 190:. She was one of the earliest 1: 866:Egypt; People, Gods, Pharaohs 668:N-water ripple (n hieroglyph) 475:, the shrine of the goddess ( 2630:Egyptian legendary creatures 894:. 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Index


Late Period
Museo Egizio

Tutankhamun
Eighteenth Dynasty
cobra
Wadjet
vulture
Nekhbet
/jʊəˈrəs/
Ancient Greek
[οὐραῖος]

Egyptian
jꜥrt
Egyptian cobra
symbol
sovereignty
royalty
deity
ancient Egypt

Wadjet
Egyptian deities
Per-Wadjet
Buto
Nile Delta
Lower Egypt
pharaohs

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