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.

Shuti, 20 spellings

The Budge two-volume dictionary of hieroglyphs records 20 spellings for shuti, from multiple sources. 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.

See 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)