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The pectorals of ancient Egypt were a form of jewelry, often represented as a brooch. These were mostly worn by richer people and the pharaoh. One type is attached with a necklace, meant to be suspended from the neck but to lie upon the breast. Statuary from the Old Kingdom onwards shows this form. A later form was attached as a brooch, with the thematic, iconographic function and statement outweighing its actual use as a piece of jewellery for adornment. The thematic statements were typically about the pharaoh or statements of ancient Egyptian mythology and culture. They are usually of gold with cloisonné inlays of gemstones. ==Ancient Egyptian definition of pectoral== The many determinatives for ''pectoral'' are not portrayed in the Gardiner's Sign List. However, one of the 10 words〔Budge, 1978, (1920), p. 1183, "pectoral", ''Index of English Words''.〕 for 'pectoral', or 'collar' uses the Usekh collar determinative, S11, the ''"collar necklace"'' The basic definition of a brooch is as a wide piece of jewellery. Therefore, one form of the 'pectoral' word listings uses the word for "breadth, broad", "to be wide or spacious", the Egyptian word ''usekh''. (Cf. Usekh collar.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pectoral (Ancient Egypt)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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