• infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    18 hours ago

    The depiction is an anachronism: the blue-and-gold headgear looks more like a death mask.

    Living pharaohs wore the double crown (s’kh’mty) of Upper and Lower Egypt, one part being white and jug-shaped, the other part being red and tiara-like with an appendage on the front.