Naos (hieroglyph)
Naos the descriptive name given to an Egyptian hieroglyph.
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The
pavilion hieroglyph is
a side view of the pharaoh seated, in opposing views, wearing the two separate
crowns,
the crown of
the South, the
white crown, and the
crown of
the North, the
red crown. The pavilion is
composed of two side views of the naos hieroglyph.
The early
Old Kingdom labels, for example Pharaoh
Den, portrayed him in a side view in his naos shrine. An example of the
combined, opposed, view with the two crowns, is the
lintel of
Senusret II,
12th dynasty,
19th century BC. It
shows the naos curved roofs of each half of the pavilion hieroglyph.
A
naophoros is
a type of statue holding the naos
symbol. An example is the
Ramesside-era statue of Panehsy, overseer of
the treasury. The earliest examples of such statues date to the
18th dynasty.
