Atef
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Country | Ancient Egypt, Upper Egypt |
Atef (
romanized: ꜣtf) is the specific feathered white crown of the ancient Egyptian deity Osiris. It combines the Hedjet, the white crown of Upper Egypt, with curly ostrich feathers on each side of the crown for the Osiris cult. The feathers are identified as ostrich from their curl or curve at the upper ends, with a slight flare toward the base. They are the same feather as (singly) worn by Maat. They may be compared with the falcon tail feathers in two-feather crowns such as those of Amun
, which are more narrow and straight without curve.
The Atef crown identifies Osiris in ancient Egyptian painting.
Predynastic Period and worn as a symbol for pharaonic
Upper Egypt.
Gallery
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drawing of a more complex variant of the Atef
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modern drawing of a pharaoh with a Atef crown
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modern drawing of a Osiris wearing the Atef
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Thutmose III with a Atef
See also
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- Deshret – Red Crown of Lower Egypt
- Hemhem crown – triple Atef
- Khepresh – Blue or War Crown
- Pschent – Double Crown of Lower & Upper Egypt
- Shuti hieroglyph (two-feather adornment)
References
- ^ Beach, Frederick Converse; Rines, George Edwin (1912). The Americana: a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world (Volume 2 ed.). New York: Scientific American Compiling Dept. p. 990.
- Budge. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)