In Ancient Egyptian texts, the " Two Ladies " ( Ancient Egyptian : nbtj , sometimes anglicized Nebty ) was a religious epithet for the goddesses Wadjet and Nekhbet , two deities who were patrons of the ancient Egyptians and worshiped by all after the unification of its two parts, Lower Egypt , and Upper Egypt . When the two parts of Egypt were joined together, there was no merger of these deities as often occurred with similar deities from various regions and cities. Both goddesses were retained because of the importance of their roles and they became known as the Two Ladies , who were the protectors of unified Egypt.
34-667: After the unification, the image of Nekhbet joined Wadjet on the uraeus , thereafter, they were shown together as part of the crowns of Egypt. The Two Ladies were responsible for establishing the laws , protecting the rulers and the Egyptian countryside , and promoting peace . The holiest of deities in the Egyptian pantheon usually were referred to by epithets or other titles—sometimes in great chains of titles—in order to keep their names secret from enemies and disbelievers and to show respect for their powers. An example of
68-611: A symbol of sovereignty , royalty , deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt . The Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet . She was one of the earliest Egyptian deities and was often depicted as a cobra, as she is the serpent goddess. The center of her cult was in Per-Wadjet , later called Buto by the Greeks. She became the patroness of the Nile Delta and the protector of all of Lower Egypt . The pharaohs wore
102-529: A protective group of deities. Colossal statues of the king wearing a Blue Crown are extremely rare; the typical royal statue also does not feature a Blue Crown. Also, depictions of the Blue Crown with its Uraeus does not decorate royal tombs until late in the Ramesside Period. The deity-on-earth king was thought to require extra protection in his mortal form, emphasizing the protective qualities of
136-476: A snake head of deep ultramarine lapis lazuli , the flared cobra hood of dark carnelian inlays, and inlays of turquoise. To mount it on the pharaoh 's crown, two loops in the rear-supporting tail of the cobra provide the attachment points. Besides the Uraeus being used as an ornament for statuary or as an adornment on the pharaoh, it also was used for jewellery and in amulets . However, another important use
170-588: Is approximately 2920 BC by the First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet , although the name only became a fully independent title by the Twelfth Dynasty which began in 1991 BC. Typically, this name is not framed by a cartouche or serekh , but always begins with the hieroglyphs of a vulture and a cobra, each resting upon a basket , symbolizing the dual noun "nebty". The rest of the title varies with each pharaoh, and would have been read, he/she of
204-493: Is as the hieroglyph . For Uraeus ornament as a mummy grave example, See: Djedptahiufankh , High Priest of 21st Dynasty, Shoshenq I . The simplest hieroglyph is the "Cobra" (the Uraeus); however there are subcategories, referring to: a goddess, a priestess, the goddess Menhit , the shrine of the goddess ( àter ), the goddess Isis, and lastly goddess: (Cobra (Uraeus) at base of deity (ntr)) . The Rosetta Stone uses
238-628: Is founded along with the world's first known dam. c. 2960 BC: Death of Egyptian First Dynasty pharaoh Semerkhet , whose name marks the first definitive use of a Nebty name . c. 2920 BC: Troy is founded on this date (assuming the interpretation of Manfred Korfmann is followed). c. 2900+ BC Prometheus would have sprouted in this century. Inventions, discoveries, introductions [ edit ] 3000–2000 BC – Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt , potter's wheel in China , first pottery in
272-977: The Americas (in Ecuador ). c. 3000 BC – Sumerians establish cities. c. 3000 BC – Sumerians start to work in various metals. c. 3000 BC – Knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern grains appears in Ancient China . 3000–2000 BC – Settled villages are widespread in Mesoamerica . The shekal was introduced in Mesopotamia as a monetary and weight unit; see ancient weights and measures , Shekel . The Sydney rock engravings date from around 3000 BC ( Sydney , Australia ). Architecture [ edit ] 30th century BC in architecture References [ edit ] ^ POSSEHL, G. L. (2000). "The Early Harappan Phase" . Bulletin of
306-854: The Indus Valley . c. 3000 BC: Camels are domesticated in Egypt. c. 3000 BC: There is an intense phase of burial at Duma na nGiall on the Hill of Tara , the ancient seat of the High King of Ireland . c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version, it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts. c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts. c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts. c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts. c. 3000 BC: Austronesian expansion begins. c. 3000 BC: Jawa, Jordan
340-4787: The "Currey Tree" " . www.researchgate.net . ^ Staff, A. G. (2016-03-30). "Australia's top 7 Aboriginal rock art sites" . Australian Geographic . Retrieved 2024-08-19 . v t e Decades and years 30th century BC 32nd century BC ← 31st century BC ← ↔ → 29th century BC → 28th century BC 3000s BC 3009 BC 3008 BC 3007 BC 3006 BC 3005 BC 3004 BC 3003 BC 3002 BC 3001 BC 3000 BC 2990s BC 2999 BC 2998 BC 2997 BC 2996 BC 2995 BC 2994 BC 2993 BC 2992 BC 2991 BC 2990 BC 2980s BC 2989 BC 2988 BC 2987 BC 2986 BC 2985 BC 2984 BC 2983 BC 2982 BC 2981 BC 2980 BC 2970s BC 2979 BC 2978 BC 2977 BC 2976 BC 2975 BC 2974 BC 2973 BC 2972 BC 2971 BC 2970 BC 2960s BC 2969 BC 2968 BC 2967 BC 2966 BC 2965 BC 2964 BC 2963 BC 2962 BC 2961 BC 2960 BC 2950s BC 2959 BC 2958 BC 2957 BC 2956 BC 2955 BC 2954 BC 2953 BC 2952 BC 2951 BC 2950 BC 2940s BC 2949 BC 2948 BC 2947 BC 2946 BC 2945 BC 2944 BC 2943 BC 2942 BC 2941 BC 2940 BC 2930s BC 2939 BC 2938 BC 2937 BC 2936 BC 2935 BC 2934 BC 2933 BC 2932 BC 2931 BC 2930 BC 2920s BC 2929 BC 2928 BC 2927 BC 2926 BC 2925 BC 2924 BC 2923 BC 2922 BC 2921 BC 2920 BC 2910s BC 2919 BC 2918 BC 2917 BC 2916 BC 2915 BC 2914 BC 2913 BC 2912 BC 2911 BC 2910 BC 2900s BC 2909 BC 2908 BC 2907 BC 2906 BC 2905 BC 2904 BC 2903 BC 2902 BC 2901 BC 2900 BC 2890s BC 2899 BC 2898 BC 2897 BC 2896 BC 2895 BC 2894 BC 2893 BC 2892 BC 2891 BC 2890 BC v t e Centuries and millennia Millennium Century BC (BCE) 4th 40th 39th 38th 37th 36th 35th 34th 33rd 32nd 31st 3rd 30th 29th 28th 27th 26th 25th 24th 23rd 22nd 21st 2nd 20th 19th 18th 17th 16th 15th 14th 13th 12th 11th 1st 10th 9th 8th 7th 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st AD (CE) 1st 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 2nd 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 3rd 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=30th_century_BC&oldid=1241106615 " Categories : 30th century BC 3rd millennium BC Centuries Hidden categories: CS1: long volume value Articles with short description Short description
374-944: The Deccan College Research Institute . 60/61: 227–241. ISSN 0045-9801 . JSTOR 42936617 . ^ Memory and Monuments at the Hill of Tara by Erin McDonald, Chronika Journal ^ National Geographic , June 2008 ^ "Bronze Age Aegean" . World History Encyclopedia . Retrieved 2022-05-25 . ^ Guild, History (2021-03-12). "What is the Austronesian Expansion?" . History Guild . Retrieved 2022-05-25 . ^ "A History of Dams: From Ancient Times to Today" . Tata & Howard . 2016-05-17 . Retrieved 2022-05-25 . ^ Salzer, Matthew; Baisan, Christopher H. "Dendrochronology of
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#1732765458251408-547: The Egyptians when the pharaohs chose a special personal patron, a temple became extremely powerful, or the capitals changed. The use of the image of the two patron goddesses on the uraeus was retained even during the rule of Akhenaten , who may have suppressed the worship of deities other than his own personally chosen favorite, Aten . His Hebty, or Nebty name was derived from a root with the Two Ladies as well, as seen in
442-466: The Two Ladies , followed by the meaning of the rest of the title. Translation of the nebty name for a pharaoh often is abbreviated, omitting the phrase above that begins each nebty name, making full understanding of the title difficult. Temple of Horus at Edfu is a temple that was built on top of the ruins of an early temple during the Ptolemaic Dynasty between 237 BC to 57 BC—into
476-671: The Two Ladies appeared to him to provide advice and a warning about the leader of the Kush army. Regnal Year 5, third month of Inundation , day 2. ...appearing in truth, [the] Two Ladies, Who [establish] laws and [pacify] the Two Lands... [to the] King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Nebmaatra, heir of Ra, Son of Ra, [Amenhotep, ruler of Thebes]... came to tell [the pharaoh], "The fallen one of vile Kush has plotted rebellion in his heart." [The pharaoh] led on to victory; he completed it in his first campaign of victory. [The pharaoh] reached them like
510-472: The Uraeus. The Uraeus was usually crafted from precious metals, most commonly gold and less frequently silver, and adorned with gemstones. The angelic seraphim , found in the Hebrew Bible and later Jewish , Christian , and Islamic traditions, are frequently associated with serpents and are thought to have derived from the concept of uraeus. Multiple-winged uraei amulets are well represented in
544-735: The ancient cultural traditions by foreign rulers who, nonetheless, preferred to be seen as a cultural continuation. These Greek rulers embraced the Ancient Egyptian traditions, albeit with their own differing interpretations and styles and, at times introducing concepts that the Ancient Egyptians would not have represented, that were based upon parallels made to their Greek traditions and concepts. Greek and Roman religious beliefs were significantly less zoomorphic than those of Ancient Egyptians. In indigenous Egyptian traditions, these goddesses might have been portrayed as women with
578-589: The ancient religious traditions were restored fully and even, later embraced by the subsequent foreign rulers of Egypt until the collapse of the Roman Empire . On the central portion of the Menat necklace displayed above, the Two Ladies flank a statue of Sekhmet, who is being propitiated by the pharaoh in a temple ceremony. The placement of them alongside her in the temple of the lioness goddess, demonstrates
612-412: The authority with which she always was associated, and the importance of an association with the Two Ladies. The nebty name, literally meaning "Two Ladies", is one of the titles of an Egyptian pharaoh, following the standard naming convention used by the Ancient Egyptians. The name was associated with the patron goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt: The first time the nebty name is used definitively ,
646-423: The heads of the respective animals more typically representing the deities when not represented as only the animals associated with them. Uraeus The Uraeus ( / j ʊəˈr iː ə s / ) or Ouraeus ( Ancient Greek : Οὐραῖος , Greek pronunciation: [οὐραῖος] ; Egyptian : jꜥrt , "rearing cobra", plural: Uraei ) is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra , used as
680-533: The hieroglyph usage is as adornments upon the hieroglyph for "shrine", and also for "buildings". Before the New Kingdom Period, the body of the Uraeus coiled around in circles behind its raised head on the Blue Crown . The king is most often depicted wearing the Blue Crown in combat and the aftermath of combat scenes. Additionally, the smaller scale king usually wore the Blue Crown when depicted in
714-481: The hierographic image of Akhenaten's Hebty name, Wernesytemakhetaten , displayed in the information box at his article and should be translated as, He of the Two Ladies, Great of kingship in Akhetaten . In this way he differed from no other pharaoh and the importance of these traditional deities persisted subtly throughout his reign, when he tried to break the power of the temple of Amun. As soon as his reign ended,
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#1732765458251748-478: The image of Wadjet on the Uraeus that would encircle the crown of the pharaohs who ruled the unified Egypt. The importance of their separate cults kept them from becoming merged as with so many Egyptian deities. Together, they were known as the Nebty or the Two Ladies , who became the joint protectors and patrons of the unified Egypt. Later, the pharaohs were seen as a manifestation of the sun god Ra , and so it also
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816-488: The pharaoh in battle, conquered his enemies, and brought victory. She was depicted as a lioness and the pharaoh-as-warrior was said to be her son, therefore, a lion. Bast was her counterpart in one of the two lands, but after unification, Sekhmet remained as the fierce warrior and Bast was assigned other duties in the Egyptian pantheon . These three deities were the strongest patrons of Ancient Egypt. They never were displaced by deities who rose and declined in importance to
850-467: The plural of the last example, "3 × "god flag" with Cobra at each base of flag". The story of the Rosetta Stone has the king (the priests of the king) listing his reasons for being honored, and in return, "The Gods and Goddesses (plural)" reward him. The last two-thirds of the Rosetta Stone relates how he will be honored, including erecting the Rosetta Stone, for all to read. Another example of
884-511: The reign of Cleopatra VII , who was the last ruling pharaoh before Egypt was absorbed into the Roman Empire. In the relief on the temple, the two goddesses are shown crowning a Ptolemaic pharaoh with the double crown derived from the combination of their separate crowns. The Two Ladies are represented wholly as women, in the same way as some other Ancient Egyptian goddesses, without any of the zoomorphic details that were characteristic of
918-515: The rock-cut offering chamber, leading from the tomb, on the south, immediately revealed in the turnover of the six inches of debris, the Golden Uraeus crown ornament. Before Tutankhamun 's tomb was found in 1922, this Golden Uraeus was the only ornament ever known to be worn by an entombed pharaoh, and it was thought that it was passed to the next pharaoh. The Golden Uraeus is of solid gold, 6.7 cm (2.6 in), black eyes of granite ,
952-465: The ruler. There is evidence for this tradition even in the Old Kingdom during the third millennium BCE. Several goddesses associated with or being considered aspects of Wadjet are depicted wearing the uraeus as well. At the time of the unification of Egypt, the image of Nekhbet , the goddess who was represented as a white vulture and held the same position as the patron of Upper Egypt , joined
986-409: The traditional Ancient Egyptian imagery. The headdresses of the goddesses in the relief imagery also are inconsistent with traditions. A vulture is displayed as the base of both headdresses. The vulture never was related to both, only to Nekhbet, and the cobra representing Wadjet is missing from what is represented as her headdress. This tiny detail is a subtle indicator of the lack of understanding of
1020-404: The uraeus as a head ornament: either with the body of Wadjet atop the head, or as a crown encircling the head; this indicated Wadjet's protection and reinforced the pharaoh's claim over the land. In whatever manner that the Uraeus was displayed upon the pharaoh's head, it was, in effect, part of the pharaoh's crown . The pharaoh was recognized only by wearing the Uraeus, which conveyed legitimacy to
1054-504: The use of this term in text references may be found in the following commemoration of a military campaign under pharaoh Amenhotep III recorded on three stelas carved from rock. In the text he is referred to as Nebmaatra. They are from his fifth year and were found near Aswan and Sai Island in Nubia . The official account of his military victory emphasizes his martial prowess with the typical hyperbole used by all pharaohs, but notes that
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1088-447: The wing stroke of a falcon... Ikheny, the boaster in the midst of the army, did not know the lion that was before him. Nebmaatra was the fierce-eyed lion whose claws seized vile Kush , who trampled down all its chiefs in their valleys, they being cast down in their blood, one on top of the other The references about fierce-eyed lions is another epithet, related to the war deity, Sekhmet , the fierce warrior goddess of Egypt who protected
1122-783: Was a century that lasted from the year 3000 BC to 2901 BC. Events [ edit ] [REDACTED] Stele bearing the name of Djet Before 3000 BC: An image of a deity (detail from a cong ) recovered from Tomb 12 in Fanshan, Yuyao , Zhejiang , is made during the Neolithic period by the Liangzhu culture . It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum , Hangzhou . c. 3000 BC: Earliest remains from Aniba (Nubia) . c. 3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa . c. 3300 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in
1156-573: Was believed that the Uraeus protected them by spitting fire on their enemies from the fiery eye of the goddess. In some mythological works, the eyes of Ra are said to be uraei. In 1919, after only a half-hour of excavation, the Qufti worker Hosni Ibrahim held in his hands the solid- gold Golden Uraeus of Senusret II . It had been decided to make a (follow-up) "complete clearance" of the El-Lahun Pyramid's rooms at Saqqara . The start in
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