246982

REMARKS ON THE NAME OF THE WESEKH-COLLAR IN THE OLD KINGDOM

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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ARCHAEOLOGY
EGYPTOLOGY

Abstract

This paper examines the different early attestations of the name of the broad collar, wesekh. The earlier studies on this collar, based on the Berlin dictionary, revealed that the name of this broad collar is first attested in the Middle Kingdom. However, studies by C. Ziegler[1] and E. Brovarski,[2] discuss an earlier attestation of the name in the chapel of Akhethotep (Louvre E 10958 [A]) of the Fifth Dynasty. Nevertheless, they did not track the former points of view regarding the name of the broad collar, nor did they discuss the other attestations,[3] as these were not their primary focus. This paper presents different perspectives on the name of the wesekh-collar, examining the various attestations in their contexts. It explores the other forms of writing the name, its determinative, and whether the way of writing the name differs from one cemetery to another. It also evaluates whether nbw and xAt indicate the wesekh-collar and looks at the relationship between the word and the image.



 

DOI

10.21608/shedet.2022.246982

Keywords

Wesekh-collar, collar of beads, Jewellery, old kingdom, Pepi II, Deshri, Saqqara

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Ouda

MiddleName

M. Mekawy

Affiliation

Dep of Egyptology, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University

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ahmed.mekawy@cu.edu.eg

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Cairo

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Volume

9

Article Issue

9

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34627

Issue Date

2022-07-01

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2022-06-30

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2022-07-01

Page Start

75

Page End

96

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2356-8704

Online ISSN

2536-9954

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REMARKS ON THE NAME OF THE WESEKH-COLLAR IN THE OLD KINGDOM

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22 Jan 2023