Crowns

IMG:file63.png: The head-dre formed an important and significant part of the king's royal uniform, and many are the varieties of crown pictured upon tomb and temple walls. The festival crown seems to have been the Pschent (No. 7), which was a combination of the white crown of Upper Egypt (No. 4) and the red crown of Lower Egypt (No. 6). On warlike occasions and even in times of peace, the king is seen wearing the Khepresh (No. 3) or war helmet. The "keeper of the king's diadem" held a high position at court under the Old Empire but the office was done away with during the New Empire. The gods are always depicted as wearing crowns, and many of them are most complicated, as Nos. 15 and 16; No. 18 is one which is frequently seen on kings as well as gods, it is known as the Atef crown. The queen's head-dre represented a vulture with his wings spread round her head in the act of protection.