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Hedjet
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Hedjet () is the White Crown of pharaonic Upper Egypt. After the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, it was combined with the Deshret, the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, to form the Pschent, the double crown of Egypt. The symbol sometimes used for the White Crown was the vulture goddess Nekhbet shown next to the head of the cobra goddess Wadjet, the uraeus on the Pschent.
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- Hedjet, the white crown of Upper Egypt
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- Ancient Egypt, Upper Egypt
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Hedjet () is the White Crown of pharaonic Upper Egypt. After the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, it was combined with the Deshret, the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, to form the Pschent, the double crown of Egypt. The symbol sometimes used for the White Crown was the vulture goddess Nekhbet shown next to the head of the cobra goddess Wadjet, the uraeus on the Pschent.
== History == thumb|upright|left|A likely predecessor of the White Crown in a Naqada I-II statuette (circa 3500 BC). thumb|left|upright|Head of a royal statue wearing the White Crown. Between 1493 and 1482 BC, New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom, from the Karnak precinct of Amun-Ra. [[Museo Egizio, Turin.]]