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shen ring
A shen ring is a circle with a line at a tangent to it, which was represented in hieroglyphs as a stylised loop of a rope. The word shen itself means, in ancient Egyptian, encircle, while the shen ring represented eternal protection. In its elongated form the shen ring became the cartouche which enclosed and protected a royal name.〔UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology online: definition cartouche〕
The shen ring is most often seen carried by the falcon god Horus, but was also carried by the vulture goddess Nekhbet. It was used as early as the third dynasty where it can be seen in the reliefs from Djoser's Step Pyramid complex.〔Kemp, B. 2007. Ancient Egypt. Anatomy of a Civilisation. pp106〕
==The stretched "shen ring", the cartouche==
The symbol could be stretched to contain other objects, which were then understood as being eternally protected by the shen ring. When it contained the name of the pharaoh the symbol became the cartouche. The word ''shen'' itself means, in Egyptian, ''encircle''.
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