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Head of the gilded wooden coffin of pharaoh Amenemope with uraeus on forehead, 21st dynasty, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The word uraeus is the Latinized form of a Greek term derived from iâret, the Egyptian name for the cobra , which also means "to ascend, to rise, to stand up". [ 21 ]
Children wore no clothing until 6 years old. Once they turned six they were allowed to wear clothing to protect them from the dry heat. A popular hairstyle among children was the side-lock, an unshaved length of hair on the right side of the head.
Because Nekhbet was a protector goddess, the queen's affiliation with her complemented the king's role as the embodiment of the falcon god Horus. [7] Khentkaus II was one of the first queens to wear the vulture headdress. [8] In the New Kingdom, the vulture's head on the crown was more frequently replaced by the uraeus. [9]
Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII.
Cleopatra VII was born in early 69 BC to the ruling Ptolemaic pharaoh Ptolemy XII and an uncertain mother, [32] [33] [note 13] presumably Ptolemy XII's wife Cleopatra V Tryphaena (who may have been the same person as Cleopatra VI Tryphaena), [34] [35] [36] [note 14] [note 2] the mother of Cleopatra's older sister, Berenice IV Epiphaneia.
The center of her cult was in Per-Wadjet, later called Buto by the Greeks. [3] She became the patroness of the Nile Delta and the protector of all of Lower Egypt . [ 4 ] The pharaohs 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 ...
The gold band was itself kept in place by a ribbon tied into a bow at the back of the head. Still remaining and mounted on the skullcap are four uraei made of gold beads and red and blue glass beads. In the center of each Uraeus is a gold cartouche containing the name of the Aten.
Nemes (/ ˈ n ɛ m ɛ ʃ /) consisted of pieces of striped head cloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt. [1] It covered the whole crown and behind of the head and nape of the neck (sometimes also extending a little way down the back) and had lappets, two large flaps which hung down behind the ears and in front of both shoulders. [2]