Egyptian Heraldry

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Illustrations:

Modern:

• Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:

http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry

• Vector Graphics:

Viking Answer Lady - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/Heraldry_SVG_Images/index.htm

Sources:

• The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy - Information about awareness of Eqyptian art, including hieroglyphics, in late period Italy. "In the prologue of De varietate fortunae, published in 1448 but conceived perhaps several decades earlier, the great Florentine humanist Poggio Bracciolini recalls a visit to the Capitoline Hill with his colleague Antonio Loschi... It was the latter days of the reign of Martin V, the Colonna pope who had returned the papacy to Rome in the autumn of 1420... Amongst the ruins, Poggio considers ... several obelisks "which were transported from Egypt with great effort and expense, as Pliny records" (p. 58). Notably, Poggio remarks that one of those obelisks was incised "with various figures of animals and birds that the ancient Egyptians used in the place of letters" (p. 58). "

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Egyptian+Renaissance%3A+The+Afterlife+of+Ancient+Egypt+in+Early+...-a0240916101

• Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/
• Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
• Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html

• New Heraldic Primer (Heraldry for Non-Heralds) - http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/newprimer/
• Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry (in progress)
• Period Armorials

• Parker's Heraldry - http://karlwilcox.com/parker/
• Riestap's Armorial Général - http://www.euraldic.com/lasu/bl/bl_a_aa.html

Precedents:

• Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
• Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
• Restatement Wiki - http://yehudaheraldry.com/restatement/index.php?title=Main_Page (restatements of Precedents)
• Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Definition:

(includes defaults, proper tinctures, blazoning)

Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

August 2003 - Eye of Horus not compatible with heraldry

Jawar al-Ifriqi. Device. Or, in pale an increscent vert and an Eye of Horus sable all within a bordure vert. This submission must be returned for use of an eye of Horus, which is an artistic design incompatible with heraldry and thus unregisterable per RfS VII.2. To quote previous precedent: The Eye of Horus is an abstract symbol or combination of symbols whose meaning was not understood by Europeans in the SCA period. Unlike the Eye of Horus, the occasional word or letter found in medieval and Renaissance heraldry were part of the languages and symbolic iconography of Europe. Nor is this symbol a reasonable heraldic depiction of an eye; a heraldic eye is a solid charge where the Eye of Horus is depicted as a thin line. As such, this belongs to the category of artistic designs which are not compatible with heraldry. (LoAR August 2001) http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2003/08/03-08lar.html

Collected Precedents:

2nd Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (April 2011 - August 2011) - Collected Armory Precedents 1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - Collected Armory Precedents 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - Collected Armory Precedents The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents 1st Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) - Collected Armory Precedents The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) - Single HTML Document 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) - the 1st part (Nov 1993 - June 1994) and the 2nd part (July 1994 - June 1996) The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) - Collected precedents 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) - the 1st year (June 1990 - June 1991) and the 2nd year (July 1991 - June 1992) The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - Collected Precedents The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - Single HTML Document The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - Collected Precedents The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - Collected Precedents The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - Collected Precedents