page_title: Jubilee Pavilion (hieroglyph)
section_title: Sed counterpoise amulet
hierarchical_section_title: Jubilee Pavilion (hieroglyph) / Sed counterpoise amulet
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Amulette en forme de contrepoids de collier au nom de Psammétique Ier - Antiquité égyptienne du musée du Louvre. English: A counterpoise-(of Menat and Counterpoise) honoring the Heb-Sed Festival-(of Pharaoh en:Psammetichus I).The column of hieroglyphs start: "Say-(cobra and word-speech)": H-b, S-d-(+plinth determinative), then 3 festival determinatives: Hall, Basin(festival), Pavilion; the rest continues with the Lizard hieroglyph, etc.Maybe: "Announcement: Heb-Sed, ....Nesu-Bity-(King of the South, the North-(Delta)), (cartouche-Psammetichus), Ra-Ma-(Like-Ra), djet-(forever)", i.e. "Announcement, Heb-Sed, ("The Peoples"...Great-One), "Nesu-Bity Psammetichus", Ra-Ma, forever."(the three untranslated dots refer to "lizard-great-One"-(single stroke determinative after great-(Swallow bird)))-(the Lizard hieroglyph can refer to the idea of "multitudes"-i.e. numerous)-(it should be remembered that: 'democracy', is Greek demotoles, the citizens)(thus Demotic Egyptian, democracy, etc; Psammetichus-(Psamtik I) was at the beginning of Greece writing-(600's BC) and the beginning of full-fledged Demotic which ascended towards 198 BC, Rosetta Stone tiem).
context_page_description: The Jubilee Festival for the Pharaoh, the Heb Sed is represented in hieroglyphs by a Jubilee Pavilion Hieroglyph. It is Gardiner Sign Listed as no. O23. However it often appears with other pavilion, or festival hieroglyphs: the Hall, no. O22,
  and an alabaster Basin, no. W3.
  An alternate hieroglyph, the Basin combined with the Hall,
  is represented by Gardiner no. W4. A ligatured combination of the Basin with the Pavilion,
  is shown in some iconographic scenes.
context_section_description: A counterpoise amulet, (menat and counterpoise), for Psammetichus I uses the three separate hieroglyphs for pavilion, hall, and basin. The sequence is hall-above-basin, then pavilion. What follows the three signs is a lizard (hieroglyph), then the Nesu-bity-name-(King of the South, King of the North) in the cartouche of Psammetichus II. (The lizard refers to the "multitudes", (the populace of Ancient Egypt).
  
  The beginning of the text column with the Cobra-at-rest-(for speech), then states: "Hb-Sd", determinative-(?) Gard. no. N20, 
  The complete text states approximately: "Announce: Heb-Sed, (The)-Multitudes, "Nesu-bity", Psammetichus II."
caption: A counterpoise amulet (menat and counterpoise), celebrating the Heb-Sed, of Psammetichus I.
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