Gold (hieroglyph) in the context of Fivefold Titulary


Gold (hieroglyph) in the context of Fivefold Titulary

⭐ Core Definition: Gold (hieroglyph)

The Egyptian hieroglyph representing gold (𓋞 Gardiner S12), phonetic value nb, is important due to its use in the Horus-of-Gold name, one of the Fivefold Titulary names of the Egyptian pharaoh.In its determinative usage, it identifies any precious metal, and as an ideogram in "gold" specifically (Egyptian nbw, whence Coptic ⲛⲟⲩⲃ nūb).

The hieroglyph represents a large gold necklace whose ends drape off either side and seven pearl pendants dangling from the middle. Old Kingdom scenes show dwarfs metalworking the gold, and "stringing the pearls of gold".

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Gold (hieroglyph) in the context of Nubkhesbed

Nubkhesbed ("Gold and Lapis lazuli") was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 20th Dynasty. She was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses VI and mother of Pharaoh Ramesses VII, Princess Iset (God's Wife of Amun) and Princes Amenherkhepshef and Panebenkemyt.

She is mentioned in her son Amenherkhepshef's tomb KV13 and on a stela of her daughter Iset in Coptos.

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Gold (hieroglyph) in the context of Egyptian gold stater

The gold stater (Egyptian: nfr-nb, "Nefer-nub", meaning "fine gold") was the first coin ever minted in ancient Egypt, around 360 BC during the reign of pharaoh Teos of the 30th Dynasty.

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