Shen ring

A ram headed bird representing the ba of Ra with shen rings in his grasp. (Louvre Museum)

In ancient Egypt a shen ring was a circle with a line tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylised loop of a rope. The word shen itself means, in ancient Egyptian, encircle, while the shen ring represented eternal protection.

In Gardiner's sign list, it is sign V9.

V9
shen
šn
in hieroglyphs
Gardiner: V9

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