The khepresh (ḫprš) was an ancient Egyptian royal headdress. It is also known as the blue crown or war crown. New Kingdom pharaohs are often depicted wearing it in battle, but it was also frequently worn in ceremonies.[1] While it was once called the war crown by many, modern historians refrain from characterizing it thus.[2]
No original example of a khepresh has yet been found. Based on ancient artistic representations, some Egyptologists have speculated that the khepresh was made of leather or stiffened cloth[3] covered with a precise arrangement of hundreds of sequins, discs, bosses, or rings. Given that the deshret (red crown) and hedjet (white crown) were apparently woven of some sort of plant fiber, the circles or rings decorating ancient artistic representations of the khepresh may instead indicate the regular array of hexagonal holes in an open triaxial weave. As with many other royal crowns, a uraeus (cobra) was hooked to the front of the khepresh.
^e.g. Myśliwiec, Karol, Eros on the Nile, Cornell University Press 2004, p.14
^Kuhrt, Amélie, The Ancient Near East: C.3000–330 B.C., Taylor & Francis 1995, p.190
^Maisels, Charles Keith, Early Civilizations of the Old World, Routledge 2001, p.60
The khepresh (ḫprš) was an ancient Egyptian royal headdress. It is also known as the blue crown or war crown. New Kingdom pharaohs are often depicted wearing...
during different dynasties such as the Khat, Nemes, Atef, Hemhem crown, and Khepresh. At times, a combination of these headdresses or crowns worn together was...
Atef crown. Deshret – Red Crown of Lower Egypt Hemhem crown – triple Atef Khepresh – Blue or War Crown Pschent – Double Crown of Lower & Upper Egypt Shuti...
adapted to the nemes headdress, a pleated, striped cloth. Later, the blue khepresh headdress was quite common in the New Kingdom. A powerful symbol of protection...
wearing a pschent Atef – Hedjet Crown with feathers identified with Osiris Khepresh – Blue or War Crown also called Royal Crown N-red crown (n hieroglyph)...
Dynasty on. The crowns include the Atef, the Deshret, the Hedjet, the Khepresh, the Pschent, and the Hemhem. Atef, the crown of Osiris, is a combination...
the Khepresh crown and adoring the god Min. The stele is the earliest known depection of the Khepresh being worn. Another ruler wearing the Khepresh Crown...
& Upper Egypt Atef – Hedjet Crown with feathers identified with Osiris Khepresh – Blue or War Crown also called Royal Crown Khat – head cloth worn by the...
white crown. Atef – hedjet crown with feathers identified with Osiris Khepresh – blue or war crown also called royal crown Arthur Maurice Hocart, The...
contain the earliest known mention of the Khepresh crown. Neferhotep is said to be "Adorned with the Khepresh, the living image of Re, lord of terror"...
in antiquity, such as the Hedjet, Deshret, Pschent (double crown) and Khepresh of Pharaonic Egypt. The Pharaohs of Egypt also wore the diadem, which was...
of Meryre II at Amarna, rewarding Meryre. There, Smenkhkare wears the khepresh crown, however he is called the son-in-law of Akhenaten. Further, his name...
to Red crown. Atef – Hedjet Crown with feathers identified with Osiris Khepresh – Blue or War Crown also called Royal Crown Examples of representations...
Hedjet Hemhem crown Hennu Horus on the Crocodiles Hypocephalus Imiut fetish Khepresh Kneph Menat Nebu Nemes Pschent Scarab Serekh Shen ring Solar barque Tyet...
U+132D8 combination of red crown and village 𓋙 S7 U+132D9 blue crown ḫprš khepresh-helmet 𓋚 S8 U+132DA Atef crown ꜣtf Ideo. or det. for the crown ꜣtf-(atef)...
for heb. Other portraits attributed to Nectanebo II (all featuring the khepresh) include a quartzite head in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania...
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