Archaeology & Antiquities
Vulture Headdress Inlay
MetalworkJewellery
Details
- Author / creator
- Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
- Object type
- Jewellery
- Date or period
- 100–1 BCE
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 3 × 2.8 cm
- Site or findspot
- Giza, Egypt
- Cultural period
- Ancient
About this object
The vulture headdress was worn by goddesses and queens. This inlay in the form of a vulture headdress has more than 100 stones: lapis lazuli (dark blue), turquoise (light blue), petrified wood (red), and an unidentified white stone painstakingly cut to shape and separated by thin plates of gold. Body, wing, and tail feathers are carefully distinguished in minute detail.
Materials and technique
Gold and semi-precious stones
