uraei

• This frieze might be composed of uraei, or of bunches of lotus; or of royal cartouches (fig. 106) supported on either side by divine symbols; or of emblems borrowed from the local cult (by heads of Hathor, for instance, in a temple dedicated to Hathor); or of a horizontal line of dedicatory inscription engraved in large and deeply-cut hieroglyphs. —  Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt
• The top of the shrine in which the god sits is surmounted by uraei, wearing disks on their heads, and the cornice also is similarly decorated. —  Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
• This reminds us of the passage in the one hundred and twenty-sixth chapter of the Book of the Dead in which the god Thoth says to the deceased, "Who is he whose roof is of fire, whose walls are living uraei, and the floor of whose house is a stream of running water? —  Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
• "'Children of the uraei-goddesses' is your name Thou knowest us; pass on, therefore, by us" [say these Floor_. —  Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
• And who is he whose roof is of fire, whose walls are living uraei, and the floor of whose house is a stream of water? —  Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life

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