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"Amenhotep III was the first king whose is known to have worn the Blue Crown, as he is the first king to be depicted doing so." (...) "The crown did not disappear until the Kushite Dynasty (747 to 656 BCE), when it ceased to be depicted." Despite the sources these claims are somewhat dubious to me, since the use of the Khepresh is attested long before Amenhotep III and very long after the Kushite Dynasty: just for saying, a check in the Commons category will give pharaohs outside these ranges, wearing the khepresh such as Amenhotep II, Nectanebo II and an unnamed 30th-to-Ptolemaic Dynasty king. Khruner ( talk) 17:34, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
I removed the following from the article: "Another possibility is that the khepresh was woven like a basket, as the deshret (red crown) is known to have been, from plant fiber such as grass, straw, flax, palm leaf, or reed. The regular array of circles on painted and sculpted depictions of the crown may be an artistic approximation of the hexagonal holes in an open triaxial weave." This text was added two years ago by a user at IP address 2602:306:c428:1e00:38fc:8b8c:3850:d23a, without a source. Others have put "citation needed" tags on it, but I'm just removing it. As it's not wildly implausible, I'm copying it here in case a source can be found to support it. A. Parrot ( talk) 17:10, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
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"Amenhotep III was the first king whose is known to have worn the Blue Crown, as he is the first king to be depicted doing so." (...) "The crown did not disappear until the Kushite Dynasty (747 to 656 BCE), when it ceased to be depicted." Despite the sources these claims are somewhat dubious to me, since the use of the Khepresh is attested long before Amenhotep III and very long after the Kushite Dynasty: just for saying, a check in the Commons category will give pharaohs outside these ranges, wearing the khepresh such as Amenhotep II, Nectanebo II and an unnamed 30th-to-Ptolemaic Dynasty king. Khruner ( talk) 17:34, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
I removed the following from the article: "Another possibility is that the khepresh was woven like a basket, as the deshret (red crown) is known to have been, from plant fiber such as grass, straw, flax, palm leaf, or reed. The regular array of circles on painted and sculpted depictions of the crown may be an artistic approximation of the hexagonal holes in an open triaxial weave." This text was added two years ago by a user at IP address 2602:306:c428:1e00:38fc:8b8c:3850:d23a, without a source. Others have put "citation needed" tags on it, but I'm just removing it. As it's not wildly implausible, I'm copying it here in case a source can be found to support it. A. Parrot ( talk) 17:10, 2 June 2019 (UTC)