
Egyptology Glossary
Ancient Egypt and Egyptology has a bewildering array of confusing names and terminology, this Egyptology Glossary will hopefully go some way to describe many of the most common words and phrases.
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Jesse Howarth was a highly esteemed businessman in Manchester and before he began to support Egyptology, he had collected Wedgwood China and paintings. His interest in Egypt probably first began around 1877, when he and his wife Marianne read Amelia Edwards book ‘1000 miles up the River Nile’, and it inspired them to make the same Nile journey in 1882. (As far as we know this was the only time that they travelled to Egypt.) Having seen the monuments and temples decided to provide substantial financial aid to Egyptology.
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Wadjet
Goddess of Lower Egypt
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Often shown as a cobra, or as the head of the cobra, Wadjet can be seen rearing from the forehead of the rulers. Evidence of her protection is most notable upon the funerary mask of Tutankhamen. Occasionally, she has been shown in the guise of her "eye of divine vengeance" role, as a lioness.