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The uraeus or ouraeus is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt.
Mask of Tutankhamun's mummy featuring a uraeus, from the Eighteenth Dynasty. The cobra image of Wadjet with the vulture image of Nekhbet represent the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt.
Four golden uraei cobra figures, bearing sun disks on their heads, on the reverse side of the throne of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (1346–1337 BC). Valley of the Kings, Thebes, New Kingdom (18th Dynasty)
Uraeus with the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. Late Period of Egypt, 664–332 BC
Green glazed cobra amulet in the form of a uraeus
Eye of Ra
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The Eye of Ra or Eye of Re, usually depicted as sun disk or right wedjat-eye, is an entity in ancient Egyptian mythology that functions as an extension of the sun god Ra's power, equated with the disk
Uraeus
…also was believed that the uraeus protected them by spitting fire on their enemies from the fiery eye of the goddess. In some mythological works, the eyes of Ra are said to be uraei. In 1919, after only a half-hour of excavation, the Qufti worker Hosni Ibrahim held in his hands the gold uraeus of Senusret II…
Ra adorned with the sun-disk, from the tomb of Nefertari, 13th century BC
The uraeus on the royal headdress of Amenemope
Sekhmet as a woman with the head of a lioness, wearing the sun disk and uraeus
Frieze of uraei bearing sun disks at the top of a wall in the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut