Shuti hieroglyph (two-feather adornment)

The ancient Egyptian Shuti, a "two-feather adornment" for crowns is part of a series of hieroglyphs for "crowns"; usage as a hieroglyph is not as common as the actual crown represented in Egyptian art, and artworks.

One popular use of the "Shuti, two-feather crown" is by the god Amun, one of his many crowns he is portrayed wearing.

huti, 20 spellings

The Budge two-volume dictionary of hieroglyphs records 20 spellings for "shuti", from multiple sources. [Budge. "An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary," E.A.Wallace Budge, p. 733B, volume II.] Besides the single hieroglyph, nine spellings use the shuti as a determinative. Most spellings use the "Shu-feather", often twice, the feather being the representation, and feather of Maat. Maat as a representative of truth, wisdom, justice, order, etc, in the kingdom, the iconographic headdress implies her role, to the one who wears the "shuti two-feather adornments".

ee also

*Gardiner's Sign List#S. Crowns, Dress, Staves, etc.
*Gardiner's Sign List

References

*Budge. "An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary," E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes) (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)