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The hieroglyphic
name of Khepresh |
khepresh was an ancient Egyptian royal
headdress. It is likewise noted as the
blue crown or war crown.
New Kingdom pharaohs are often drawn wearing it in battle, but it was also frequently worn in ceremonies. It practiced to be called a war crown by many, but modern historians refrain from defining it thus.
No khepresh has been saw. located on ancient artistic representations, some
Egyptologists have pondered that the khepresh was made of leather or tightened cloth addressed with a precise arrangement of hundreds of sequins, discs, bosses, or rings. Another opening is that the khepresh was braided like a basket, as the deshret (red crown) is noted to have been, from plant fiber such as grass, straw, flax, ribbon leaf, or reed. The regular array of circles on near and sculpted depictions of the crown may be an artistic idea of the hexangular holes in an open triaxial weave.[citation needed] As with many other royal crowns, a uraeus (cobra) was hooked to the front of the khepresh.
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Tthe blue crown
of Egypt (Khepresh) |
The Blue Crown, or War Crown, was described in
hieroglyphs. The earliest known mention of the khepresh is on the stela Cairo JE 59635 [CG 20799] which dates to the dominate of pharaoh Neferhotep III, during the
Second Intermediate Period. In this and other instances from the same era, the word is written with a determining that represents the cap crown, a lower and less close typecast of crown. Pictures of the khepresh from the dominate of
Ahmose I, first king of the New Kingdom and the
Eighteenth Dynasty, show a headgear that is taller than the cap crown and more angular than later forms of the khepresh. This crown continued to produce during the early Eighteenth Dynasty, attaining its best-known form in the reigns of
Hatshepsut and
Thutmose III.
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The Khepresh
of Tutankamun |
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Amenhotep III wearing
the khepresh crown |
After Amenhotep III's prevail and peculiarly during the 18th and 19th Dynasties it came into fashion and was even took by some pharaohs as a essential crown. The crown ceased to be showed in the Kushite Dynasty (747 to 656 BCE).
During the New Kingdom, pharaohs were established with this crown in military portions. However, some scholars think that the crown was likewise meant to evoke the divine power of the pharaoh, and was thereby worn to religiously situate kings as manifestations of
gods on earth.
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