A fine Egyptian Faience White Crown Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Sculpture - Stone allowing the intricate serpent heads

allowing the intricate serpent heads to take center stage

Cylinder seals of 12th Dynasty kings naming them and Sobek (sometimes Sobek of Sumenu

its turned head with round cheeks flanking a wedge-shaped nose

then gradually tapered off in quality and quantity until just after the close of the fourth century BCE

A fine Egyptian Faience White Crown Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Sculpture - Stone allowing the intricate serpent headsAs ruler of Upper Egypt, the land south of the delta, the Pharoah wore the headgear known from its color as the White Crown. Called hedjet, 'White One', but also wrt (weret), the 'Great One', it takes the form of a tall conical shape with a bulbous top and was probably made from starched linen or white leather over a wicker frame. Its white color is all important and invariable, yet, curiously, all the amulets in its shape without exception are green,