The first usage of the Red Crown was in iconography as the symbol for Lower Egypt with the Nile Delta, horizontal letter 'n', Gardiner no. As an iconographic element, it is used on the famous palette of Pharaoh Narmer as the "Red Crown of the Delta", the Delta being Lower Egypt. The fact that no crown has ever been found buried with any of the pharaohs, even in relatively intact tombs, might suggest that it was passed from one regent to the next, much as in present-day monarchies.ĭeshret, the ancient Egyptian Red Crown, is one of the oldest Egyptian hieroglyphs. A label from the reign of Djer records a royal visit to the shrine of the Deshret which may have been located at Buto in the Nile delta. An early example is the depiction of the victorious pharaoh wearing the deshret on the Narmer Palette. The Red Crown frequently is mentioned in texts and depicted in reliefs and statues. Several ancient representations indicate it was woven like a basket from plant fiber such as grass, straw, flax, palm leaf, or reed.
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It was considered a region of chaos, without law and full of dangers. Īs concerns deshret, the Red Land which comprised the deserts and foreign lands surrounding Egypt, Seth was its lord. The Red Crown would later be combined with the White Crown of Upper Egypt to form the Double Crown, symbolizing the rule over the whole country, "The Two Lands" as the Egyptians expressed it. Other deities wore the deshret too, or were identified with it, such as the protective serpent goddess Wadjet and the creator-goddess of Sais, Neith, who often is shown wearing the Red Crown. The Egyptian pharaohs, who saw themselves as successors of Horus, wore the deshret to symbolize their authority over Lower Egypt.
In mythology, the earth deity Geb, original ruler of Egypt, invested Horus with the rule over Lower Egypt.
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