Cheker frieze

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Cheker frieze in the tomb of Sennefer .

A cheker frieze is an ancient Egyptian top ornament of decorated wall surfaces, which consists of a sequence of upright, bundled and knotted carpet fringes or bundles of reeds. These probably formed an early wall hanging. Most of the friezes are either pointed at the top without interior drawing or with detailed interior drawing (red – green – blue) and a goblet-like open top. The oldest examples can be found in the Djoser pyramid and in Meidum . In the New Kingdom , imaginative variants with z. B. attached sun disks.

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