Styles, languages, and cultural icons that are commonly used in by artisans in Egypt hand crafting Silver Jewelry are very interesting. Silver Bracelets, Rings, Cartouche, Key Chains, and Pendants are some of jewelry items that use Egyptian icons as themes.
It is very popular to create jewelry items that are personalized using English, Arabic, or Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs are the ancient Egyptian picture language used primarily by the Royalty and the priest class. To the ruling classes information was power and hieroglyphics the medium of their information storage. The Arabic used on personalized jewelry is a beautiful flowing form. Many jewelry pieces allow for a combination of languages. For example, double sided cartouche can have a name in English on one side and the same name in Hieroglyphics or Arabic on the other side.
Images of ancient Royalty are a favorite theme for hand crafted jewelry. For example, images of King Tut and Nefertiti are almost iconic as representing ancient royalty in Egypt. Another favorite subject for crafting jewelry items are images of the ancient Gods such as Isis and the Eye of Horus.
Other images used are items such as the pyramids (frequently tombs of the pharaohs), the ankh, musicians, and the scarab beetle (sacred and considered related to the sun, as seen in the dung balls they rolled). The Ankh is the symbol of life, power, and wealth.
A very popular jewelry form, that is purely personalized, is the cartouche. Cartouches are symbols, a seal of state, or a personal chop. It is typically an elongated oval shape containing a person’s name (commonly in ancient Egypt that name was a Pharaoh’s such as King Tutankhamen’s) in Hieroglyphics. Silver cartouche as jewelry are a clever and exotic personal seal worn on a sterling silver chain around one’s neck, and is a handsome art object.
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