Shen Ring - Shen Ring Uses in Iconography

Shen Ring Uses in Iconography

The Shen ring is the 'shenu'.

• The Goddess Heqet, (the 'Frog'), is often seated on a shenu.
• For Eternity, the renpit, papyrus stalk is usually based on top of a Shen ring. See the Egyptian god Huh. (Senusret I has a famous Lintel relief showing this.)
• The Shen ring is often attached to various types of staffs, the staff of authority, or power, symbolizing the Eternal authority of that power.
• The Goddess Isis, and the Goddess Nekhbet are often shown kneeling, with their hands resting upon a shenu.
• The Hawk (Horus), and the Vulture (Goddess Mut) have the shenu in their talons, wings outstretched, over the scene portrayed. The "Horus with Outstretched Wings", shenu's in its talons, is an example from the Louvre of a Pectoral Brooch, possibly for royalty.

• Shen ring

• Artifact at the Louvre Museum, France

• God Huh

• Detail of pillar at the Temple of Kom Ombo

• The Temple of Hatshepsut and its vast quantity of Shen rings.

• Stela at the Louvre

• Stela of Harpist and god Ra

• Seshat carved on the back of the throne of the seated statue of Rameses II.