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The royal titulary or royal protocol is the standard naming convention taken by the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. It symbolised worldly power and holy might, also acting as a sort of mission statement for the duration of a monarch's reign (although sometimes it even changed during the reign).
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List. From the later half of the 5th Dynasty onwards, the full royal titulary consisted of 5 titles or great names. Each title expresses a part of the role of the King in society and shows the divine nature of kingship. Horus Name. The Horus Name of Horus Djet. Source: Andreu e.a., L'Egypte ancienne au Louvre, Hachette 1997, p. 43.
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a serekh is a rectangular enclosure representing the niched or gated façade of a palace surmounted by (usually) the Horus falcon, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The serekh was the earliest convention used to set apart the royal name in ancient Egyptian iconography, predating the later and better ...
978-1-58983-736-2. History, Religion. The titulary of the ancient Egyptian king was one of the symbols of authority he assumed at his coronation. At first consisting only of the Horus name, the titu...
