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
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
^"Uraeus". Dictionary.com. 2012. Diakses tanggal July 13, 2012.
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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.
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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. ISBN0-7103-0212-6
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.
