The pool (she) symbol in Egyptian mythology represents water.
It is a rectangle, longer horizontally than vertically, with seven equally spaced vertical zigzag lines within it.
[1] It can also represent the primal waters that the Egyptians believed was the source of all things, which they called Nun.
Egyptian pharaohs had decreed that objects in paintings and the like should be instantly recognizable to the viewer.
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