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Blue Crown en · PROPN

Etymology

From blue + crown.

Meanings

  1. A crown of Ancient Egypt, thought to have been worn in battle or used as a Ramesside substitute for the White Crown, among other functions.
    • The Blue Crown (ḫprš), thought to be a war crown, first makes its appearance early in Dynasty XVIII (B). 1989, Eleni Vassilika, Ptolemaic Philae, page 92:
    • Like many other head-dresses, the Blue Crown is worn by the king when presenting offerings. 2003, Tom Hardwick, “The Iconography of the Blue Crown in the New Kingdom”, in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 89, page 117:
    • I have not found the Blue Crown on the head of any figure in the Twenty-first Dynasty, though I cannot account for its absence. 1979, Beatrice L. Goff, Symbols of Ancient Egypt in the Late Period: The Twenty-first Dynasty, page 202: