The most common cases of jewelry in ancient Egypt were bangles, anklets, necklaces, rings, and belts, likewise as chest pieces. Egyptians did not clothing earrings until the New Kingdom, when the best ones were exotic from Asia. Beginning in the Predynastic Period and continuing throughout Egypt's history, jewelry might be given as an present to worthy souls or given as an offering to the gods or to the late in religious rituals.
Gold was the near favorite material for jewelry among the upper classes, while wood, plant fibers, and other easily clear materials were old by the poor. Gold jewelry was normally decorated with valuable and worth stones often chose on the foundation of their color, since unique colors had various symbolic substances. In addition, numerous items of jewelry had religious symbols etched on them. For Instance, scarab starting (a symbol of the sun and of rebirth), the cobra (a symbolisation of kingship), and the solar disk (a symbolization of the sun god) all come along among the more than 150 pieces of jewelry found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
In addition to being nonstructural, jewelry was worn by the living to indicate status; the more large the piece of jewelry, the richer and more powerful the person bearing it. Not amazingly, then, the most lavish jewelry has been seen in the tombs of kings and their family members. Among the most serious finds in this regard were a series of Twelfth Dynasty tombs of princesses. One was that of Princess Sithathoriunet, a daughter of King Senwosret II, whose tomb taken five large boxes of jewelry as well as cosmetics and other physical items. Another of the king's daughters, Princess Sathathor, had a great elry as well, taking on a belt with two shell halves that played as a buckle whenfit together.
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