Naos

Naos in
hieroglyphic

The naos or Naos (shrine) is a symbol used in ancient Egypt. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, 2 standard variations exist of the character translated as "naos": the older one dating to the Old Kingdom era, and a common right form from the New Kingdom and later.

The naos as a small shrine is famous in its typically Egyptian shape since the beginning of Ancient Egyptian history. It eventually came to be presented as an Egyptian hieroglyph.

Some of the oldest lessons are from the judges of the early pharaohs. The Early Dynastic king Narmer is shown on the Narmer Macehead seated in a naos.

The label of king den

A statue of a person holding a little naos, much as the statue of the Ramesside superintendent of the treasury Panehsy, is named naophorous. The earliest lessons of much statues date to the 18th dynasty.

The early Old Kingdom tags, for exercise Pharaoh Den, portrayed him in a side view in his naos enshrine. An exercise of the combined, matched, view with the 2 crowns, is the lintel of Senusret II, 12th dynasty, 19th century BC. It points the naos curved ceilings of each half of the marquee hieroglyph.

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