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THE EMPIRE OF THE PYRAMIDS

QUEEN MERITITES I DRESS

THE DESIGN OF THE PROPOSED CONTEM- PORARY DRESS FOR QUEEN MERITITES I IS IN- SPIRED BY THE PYRAMID OF HER HUSBAND, KING KHUFU, PERCHED ON THE TOP OF THE “GIZA” PLATEAU, WHERE THE PYRAMIDAL SHAPE OF COPPER COATED WITH A LAYER OF GOLD WAS USED FREELY AT THE TOP OF THE DRESS – NEXT TO THE HEART. WHERE THE PYRAMID IS REPRESENTED BY A PHYSICAL EM- BODIMENT OF THE SUN’S
RAYS THAT CONNECT THE SKY AND THE EARTH, AND WHAT THESE RAYS SYMBOLIZE OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF LIFE AND THE HOPES OF IMMORTALITY. BELOW THAT PYRA- MIDAL SHAPE APPEARS AN ARTISTIC FORMA- TION OF A CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTION OF THE “GRAND GALLERY” INSIDE THE GREAT PYRAMID, AS IT IS THE MAIN ARCHITECTURAL SPACE INSIDE THE PYRAMID LEADING TO THE BURIAL ROOM OF KING “KHUFU”, WHICH IN TURN REPRESENTS, ALONG WITH THE PYRA- MID SHAPE AT THE TOP OF THE DRESS, A SYM- BOLIC CONFIRMATION OF THE EMOTIONAL CONNECTION BETWEEN QUEEN MERITITES I AND HER HUSBAND, KING KHUFU. THIS DESIGN CONCEPT WAS ALSO CONFIRMED THROUGH THE USE OF COPPER UNITS COATED WITH A LAYER OF GOLD, CONSIDERING GOLD AS A PHYSICAL EMBODIMENT OF THE SUN’S RAYS IN THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BELIEFS PREVAIL- ING AT THE TIME, IN ADDITION TO THE USE OF THE BLACK COLOR AS A SYMBOL OF THE EGYPTIAN LANDS BACK THEN.