EGYPT 494 - The MENAT - (by Egyptahotep)

The menat (or menit) necklace consisted of a heavy bead necklace with a crescent front piece and a counterpoise attached at the rear part. Statues of the earlier periods sometimes show these two counterpoises hanging down the back of the wearer, but by the beginning of the New Kingdom, they are fused into one such weight, though in votive faience menit a thin groove is frequently incised about the outside edges, as though the two counterpoises had been stuck together one on top of the other. The menit is a