Wearing sometimes the truncated crown of Lower Egypt, sometimes the helmet-crown of Upper Egypt, and sometimes the pschent, which is a combination of both, he figures in every tableau and heads every procession. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
He wears the "pschent," or double crown, signifying his domination over Upper and Lower Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
Anion, after having placed the pschent upon the head of the. From Wordnik.com. [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference
Mout, or mother, represented in the act of suckling, and wearing the pschent, or cap, worn only by deities and Pharaohs; the Egyptian. From Wordnik.com. [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference
On the shafts of the huge columns were decorative or symbolical figures wearing the pschent, armed with the tau, following each other in procession, and whose eyes, showing full upon a side face, seemed to look inquisitively into the hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
The soul of the dead woman, led by two funeral genii, the one hostile, the other favourable, was bowing before Osiris, the great judge of the dead, seated on his throne, wearing the pschent, the conventional beard on the chin, and a whip in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
Seek her out as Isis sought her husband Osiris torn away by Typhon, and, dead or alive, bring her back, -- or by the uræus of my pschent, by the lotus of my sceptre, you shall perish in hideous tortures. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
Dans le pschent dun roi de granit. From Wordnik.com. [Ce que disent les Hirondelles] Reference
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