necklace Ankh - crux ansata 3d print model 3D print model

necklace Ankh - crux ansata 3d print model

The ankh (/æŋk, ɑːŋk/; Egyptian ˁnḫ), also known as crux ansata (the Latin for cross with a handle) is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic ideograph symbolizing life. The Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or bearing one in each hand, arms crossed over their chest. The ankh appears in hand or in proximity of almost every deity in the Egyptian pantheon (including Pharaohs).

The ankh symbol was so prevalent that it has been found in digs as far as Mesopotamia and Persia, and even on the seal of the biblical king Hezekiah.

Alan Gardiner (1957) explains the hieroglyph as a depiction of a sandal-strap (ˁnḫ) which came to be read phonetically and could be used (as rebus writing) for the similar word ˁnḫ live, a triliteral root probably pronounced /ʕánax/ in Old and Middle Egyptian. This verb and its derivatives are likely ancestral to the Coptic words ⲱⲛϩ ōnh to live, life and ⲉⲛⲉϩ eneh eternity.

There have been alternative suggestions. One of the earliest proposals was that of Thomas Inman, first published in 1869, according to which the symbol combines the male triad and the female unit. E. A. Wallis Budge (1904) postulated that the symbol originated as the belt buckle of the mother goddess Isis.

Andrew Hunt Gordon and Calvin Schwabe, in their 2004 book The Quick and the Dead, speculated that the ankh, djed, and was symbols have a basis in cattle culture, with the ankh representing the thoracic vertebra of a bull (seen in cross section), the djed the base or sacrum of a bull's spine, and the was a staff.

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