Deshret
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"Red crown" redirects here. For the Missouri tavern, see Red Crown Tourist Court.
Deshret (Ancient Egyptian: 𓂧𓈙𓂋𓏏𓋔, romanized: dašrat, lit. 'Red One') was the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. When combined with the Hedjet (White Crown) of Upper Egypt, it forms the Pschent (Double Crown), in ancient Egyptian called the sekhemti.
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The Red Crown in Egyptian language hieroglyphs eventually was used as the vertical letter "n". The original "n" hieroglyph from the Predynastic Period and the Old Kingdom was the sign depicting ripples of water.
The word Deshret also referred to the desert Red Land on either side of Kemet (Black Land), the fertile Nile river basin.