Uraeus
Tampilan
Uraeus (/jʊəˈriːəs/;[1] jamak Uraei atau Uraeuses; dari kata Yunani οὐραῖος, ouraîos, "di ekornya"; dari kata Mesir jʿr.t (iaret)) adalah sebuah bentuk dari kobra Mesir yang dipakai sebagai simbol kedaulatan, keningratan, deitas dan otoritas ilahi di Mesir kuno.
Simbolisme
[sunting | sunting sumber]Uraeus adalah simbol untuk dewi Wadjet.[2] Ia adalah salah satu dewi Mesir terawal dan sering digambarkan sebagai kobra,, karena ia merupakan dewi ular.
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]Sumber
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Alchin, Linda. "The Uraeus." Egyptian Gods. Siteseen Ltd, n.d. Web.
- Budge, Sir E. A. Wallis. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, in Two Volumes, (Dover Publications, Inc, New York), c 1920, Dover Edition, c 1978. (Large categorized listings of Hieroglyphs, Vol 1, pp xcvii–cxlvii (97–147, 50 pgs.)
- Dunand, Françoise, and Christiane Zivie-Coche. "Cosmonogies, Creation, and Time: Order and Disorder in Creation." Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE. Ithaca: Cornell U, 2004. 347. Print.
- "Egyptian Symbols: Uraeus." Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Egyptian-Gods.org, n.d. Web.
- Hagen, Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen. Egypt; People, Gods, Pharaohs, (Barnes and Noble Books, New York), c 2003, (originally: Taschen, GmbH, Koln), c 2003, 1999, pg 202.
- Hardwick, Tom. "The Iconography of the Blue Crown in the New Kingdom." The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 89, 2003, pp. 117–141. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3822494.
- Johnson, Sally J. (1990). The Cobra Goddess of Ancient Egypt: Predynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom Periods. Kegan Paul International. ISBN 0-7103-0212-6
- Reeves, Nicholas. Ancient Egypt, The Great Discoveries, a Year-by-Year Chronicle, (Thames and Hudson Ltd, London), c. 2000. See "1920, The Golden Uraeus of Sesostris II from el-Lahun", pg. 157.
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