A ram headed bird representing the ba of Ra with shen rings in his grasp. (Louvre Museum)
In ancient Egypt a shen ring was a circle with a line tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylised loop of a rope. The word shen itself means, in ancient Egyptian, encircle, while the shen ring represented eternal protection.
ancient Egypt a shenring was a circle with a line tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylised loop of a rope. The word shen itself means, in...
Shen ring, an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol, a form of cartouche Shěn (surname), Chinese surname Shen (沈) Shēn (surname), Chinese surname Shen (申)...
for cartouche was shenu, and the cartouche was essentially an expanded shenring. Demotic script reduced the cartouche to a pair of brackets and a vertical...
depicting Nekhbet in the Temple of Hatshepsut Nekhbet holding a staff and Shenring A painted relief depicting Nekhbet in Queen Hatshepsut's temple Relief...
new Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Pottery Gallery Nekhbet with staff and shenring Granite vulture from Temple of Taharqa, Sanam Abu Dom, Napatan Period...
sun god Ra as the "protector of Ra's celestial bark" by "bringing the shen-ring to his majesty". He was also described as the "mouth of the time", from...
Description of Greece. ix.16 § 1. Pausanias. Description of Greece. iii.18 § 2. Ring, Trudy; Salkin, Robert M; Berney, KA; Schellinger, Paul E, eds. (1994). International...
the years; each palm rib rests on the back of a tadpole sitting on a shenring. At the upper end of each palm rib there is an ankh symbol, the sign of...
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