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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 wsαΊ can mean "breadth" or "width" in the ...
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 (π ππππ§), Arabic: Ω ΩΨ§Ψͺ) 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.
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.
Malqata Menat. The Malqata Menat was found by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Expedition in 1910, in a private house near the Heb Seds palace of Amenhotep III in Malqata, Thebes. [1] A menat is a type of necklace made up of a series of strings of beads that form a broad collar and a metal counterpoise. The menat could be worn around the neck or ...
Regalia of the Pharaoh. Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his regalia, the headdress, the pschent, the false beard and the uraeus. The Regalia of the Pharaoh or Pharaoh's attributes are the symbolic objects of royalty in ancient Egypt (crowns, headdresses, scepters). In use between 3150 and 30 BC, these attributes were specific to pharaohs, but also to ...
Egyptian finger and toe stall. A set of finger and toe stalls belonging to one of the foreign wives of Thutmose III, dating to the 15th century B.C. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Egyptian finger and toe stalls are pieces of gold jewelry used in Ancient Egypt to protect digits during burial. Such stalls were used during the 18th Dynasty ...
Flint jewelry was known in the prehistoric, protodynastic, and early dynastic periods of ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians skillfully made bracelets [1][2] and armlets [3][4] out of flint. The flint came from locations that include Giza and Upper Egypt. [5] The exact technique used to form rings is not known, but there are several theories based ...