Two Lands of Egypt

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The Two Lands of Egypt refers to the ancient political and symbolic union of Upper and Lower Egypt, often represented in royal titles and iconography as a single, unified kingdom.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Two Lands of Egypt canonical 3
Crowns of Egypt 1
the Two Lands of Egypt 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical concept
political entity
symbolic concept
associatedWith Egyptian iconography
Egyptian pharaoh
royal titulary
category Ancient Egyptian political geography
Ancient Egyptian royal ideology
centralTo Egyptian kingship ideology
pharaonic state religion
emergedAfter unification of Egypt
hasCapital Memphis
hasMotto unification of the Two Lands
hasPart Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt
hasRitual coronation of the pharaoh
unification festivals
hasSymbol Red Crown
surface form: Pschent

bee symbol
sedge plant
influenced Theban nome
surface form: Egyptian provincial administration

division of nomes
knownInAncientEgyptianAs Ta-Mehu
surface form: Ta-Wy

Deshret
surface form: Tawy
linkedToDeity Horus
Nekhbet
Seth
Wadjet
partOf Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: ancient Egypt
refersTo Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: unified kingdom of Upper and Lower Egypt
representedBy Double Crown of Egypt
surface form: double crown of Egypt

paired deities of Upper and Lower Egypt
sema-tawy motif
representedInTitle He of the Sedge and the Bee
King of Upper and Lower Egypt
Lord of the Two Lands
symbolizes cosmic order
pharaonic authority
political unity of Egypt
timePeriod Early Dynastic Egypt
surface form: Early Dynastic Period of Egypt

Late Period of Egypt
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
New Kingdom of Egypt
Old Kingdom of Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Roman province of Egypt
surface form: Roman Egypt
unifiedBy Narmer
surface form: Menes

Narmer

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Deshret partOfConcept Two Lands of Egypt
Ta-Mehu partOf Two Lands of Egypt
White Crown of Upper Egypt category Two Lands of Egypt
this entity surface form: Crowns of Egypt
Ta-Shema partOf Two Lands of Egypt
Lord of the Two Lands refersTo Two Lands of Egypt
this entity surface form: the Two Lands of Egypt