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  • noun Plural form of uraeus.

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Examples

  • The drawing showed the sun between two falcons, and the head of a god with and Egyptian crown containing two uraei (rearing cobras) with a sun disk.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 5 2003

  • Under the day and date-Monday, October 19th-he'd sketched a griffinlike animal with the body of an antelope and the head of a bird crowned with three uraei and three sets of wings.

    Blood Lines Huff, Tanya 1993

  • And who is he whose roof is of fire, whose walls are living uraei, and the floor of whose house is a stream of water?

    Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

  • His throne is a tomb, of which the bolted doors and the cornice of uraei may be seen painted on the side.

    Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

  • The artists, then, depicted a Hall of Ma [= a] t, the doors of which are wide open, and the cornice of which is formed of uraei and feathers, symbolic of Ma [= a] t.

    Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

  • North furnished with uraei; neither works nor offerings can be made to him; and he cannot be made to come forth from his secret place.

    Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

  • Urerit Crown, and there were two uraei upon his head.

    Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895

  • The top of the shrine in which the god sits is surmounted by uraei, wearing disks on their heads, and the cornice also is similarly decorated.

    Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

  • And Heru-Behutet was in the form of a man of mighty strength, and he had the face of a hawk, and his head was crowned with the White Crown and the Red Crown, and with two plumes and two uraei, and he had the back of a hawk, and his spear and his chain were in his hands.

    Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895

  • The goddess Nebt-Unnut is stablished upon thy head; and her uraei of the South and of the North are upon thy brow; she taketh up her place before thee.

    Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

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  • plural of uraeus.

    June 9, 2009