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‖ pschent, p-skhent Egyptol.|psxɛnt|
Also pshent.
[a. Gk. ψχέντ, = Egyptian Demotic p-skhent, i.e. p def. article ‘the’ + skhent:—Hierogl. sekhen, sekhent, sekhet, sekhte, the double crown of Egypt.]
The double crown of ancient Egypt, combining the white crown of Upper Egypt with the red crown of Lower Egypt, used after the union of the two kingdoms under Menes. (See Budge, Decrees of Memphis (1904) II. 32.)
The word came into use through the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1798; in this, line 9 of the Egyptian text has a hieroglyph read sekhet, line 26 of the Demotic text has p-skhent, and line 44 of the Greek text has ψχέντ.
[1802Plumtre in Gentl. Mag. LXXII. 1108 In the midst of which shall be the crown called ψοχεντ (an Egyptian word probably). 1809Porson in Clarke Greek Marbles 64 The basileia called ΨοΧΕντ.] 1814T. Young in Archæologia XVIII. 69 There shall be placed in the midst of them..the crown Pschent, which ornament he then wore. 1857Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 87 Mut, the mother goddess, the companion of Amen-Ra, wearing on her head the pschent or Egyptian crown. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xvi. 431 The King is crowned with the pschent. 1888Chambers' Encycl. I. 22/2 These are the largest figures of Egyptian sculpture, being 66 feet high from the feet to the pschent with which the king's head is covered. 1922Joyce Ulysses 500 On his head is perched an Egyptian pshent. |