The Usekh or Wesekh is a personal ornament, a type of broad collar or necklace, familiar to many because of its presence in images of the ancient Egyptian elite ...
The broadcollar was the most common type of Old Kingdom jewelry. At Giza alone, George Reisner found nineteen such collars in tombs of both men and women.
The collar imitates in precious materials a floral garland worn at a banquet, composed of ephemeral materials like berries and the petals of the blue water lily ...
These beaded collars may have been derived from floral prototypes. In antiquity the collar was called a wesekh, literally "the broad one." MEDIUM Faience.
Wesekh Collar. Probably the most iconic form of Egyptian jewellery is the broad layered collar known as a “wesekh” (“wasekh”, or “weskhet”). This collar ...
