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    Look up sistrum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sistrum (plural: sistra or (in Latin) sīstra; from the Greek σεῖστρον seistron of the same meaning;...
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    imagery of Bat persisted throughout the history of ancient Egypt on the sistrum, a sacred instrument that remained associated with religious practices...
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    portrayed with the sistrum. This is in allusion to his mother Hathor who was associated with the instrument. Ihy's symbols are the sistrum and a necklace...
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    from alabaster. The goddess was sometimes depicted holding a ceremonial sistrum in one hand and an aegis in the other—the aegis usually resembling a collar...
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    commonly carried a sistrum or a menat necklace. The sistrum came in two varieties: a simple loop shape or the more complex naos sistrum, which was shaped...
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    the ancient Egyptian sistrum. Others[who?] do not go quite so far, referring to the triangle as being "allied" with the sistrum throughout history, but...
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    (nbt-t3wy) Lady of the Rattle and Mistress of the Sistrum Prophetess of Hathor Princess-child of Horus [Sistrum player] of Mut Chantress of Mut Menit player...
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    Statue of syncretic Goddess Persephone - Isis with a sistrum, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete...
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    1842 Ricinula undata (Dillwyn, 1817) Sistrum indica Nevill & Nevill, 1875 Sistrum undatum (Dillwyn, 1817) Sistrum undatum var. kieneri Dautzenberg & Fischer...
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    & Laauwb) Tabl Nasayfi (Khamari & Laauwb) Al Ras Mazhar Shakhshikhah (Sistrum) Sajat Turah (Egyptian Sajat) Twaysat (Gulf Sajat) Krakebs Hawan Yahalah/Jahalah...
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    and shares its root with the ancient Egyptian musical instrument, the sistrum, a type of rattle.[citation needed] Three species are currently recognized...
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    of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt. The nome was referred to as Sesheshet (Sistrum). The main city was referred to as Hu(t)-sekhem (Ancient Egyptian: Ḥw.t-Sḫm)...
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    Shrine of Isis Shrine of Sokar Shrine of Harsomtus Shrine of Hathor's Sistrum Shrine of gods of Lower Egypt Shrine of Hathor Shrine of the throne of...
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    include nine lyres ( the Lyres of Ur), two harps, a silver double flute, a sistrum and cymbals. A set of reed-sounded silver pipes discovered in Ur was the...
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    a Hathor head. Two kinds of sistrum are attested, naos-shaped and hoop-shaped; the latter became the more common. Sistrum decorated with a Hathor face;...
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    cymbals, tambourines, drums, and imported lutes and lyres from Asia. The sistrum was a rattle-like musical instrument that was especially important in religious...
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  • Distinctively Roman statue of Isis holding a sistrum and a situla...
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    sometimes represented the sistrum, a musical rattle that was sacred to Hathor and was carried by her priestesses. The sistrum had a metal loop with jingles...
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  • Egypt, a project that is ongoing. Broken Egyptian sistrum Egyptian sistrum Collection of sistrums at the Louvre From the Walters Art Museum, 380–250...
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    are equal in size to those of Ramesses II. Nefertari is shown holding a sistrum. She wears a long sheet dress and she is depicted with a long wig, Hathoric...
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    ascending order of importance, the initiatory grades were:(p 133–138) Spade, sistrum, lightning bolt Sword, crescent moon, star, sickle Torch, crown, whip Patera...
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    underworld, grain, and nature Statue of syncretic Persephone-Isis with a sistrum. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete Abode The underworld Symbol Pomegranate...
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    Hermopolis, the wife of Thoth. Her depictions are anthropomorph, with a sistrum-shaped headdress, often with a child in her lap. Wörterbuch, II., p.297...
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    There are four bronze gilt medallions representing musical instruments (sistrum for Egypt, lyre for Greece, tambourine and pan flute for Italy, ivory horn...
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  • land Shrine land Sceptre land The two falcons land The crocodile land Sistrum land The Great land Min-God land Cobra land Sha-Set animal land Viper mountain...
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    appear on some of the figurines of this type, such as a lotus crown and sistrum, along with the fact that they were produced in Egypt, has led scholars...
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    term has been erroneously supposed by some writers to be the same as the sistrum. These mistakes are refuted at length by Friedrich Adolph Lampe (1683–1729)...
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    light. Horus represented as a child with the unified Egyptian crown, and sistrum. The winged sun of Horus of Edfu is a symbol in associated with divinity...
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  • for relief usage) 𓏣 Y8 U+133E3 Sistrum Sistrum (sššt) sš, sššt (also sḫm) A. Ideo. for "sistrum", sššt, (or sḫm(=sistrum)); det. in sššt; B. sḫm is Egyptian...
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    Egyptian Archaeology, London Limestone relief fragment. A princess holding sistrum behind Nefertiti, who is partially seen. Reign of Akhenaten. From Amarna...
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