TAA i.1.256.ppp.1

256, PPP. PECTORAL - Gold inlaid 1

POSITION:   

PECTORAL: Thorax, upper centre.

CLASP: below nape of neck (see group 4 E).

DIMENSIONS:

PECTORAL: Max. H. 6.5 cents.; Max. W. 11.0 cents.

CLASP: L. 4.0 cents.

DESCRIPTION:

Nekhbet-vulture with drooping wings, holding in her talons šn-

symbols; head facing to R. (South). Like the Nekhbet-insignia

(256, S) of the diadem (256, O.) this vulture has all the

characteristics of the sociable vulture -

which today, and probably in ancient times, has its habitat

from the middle and upper provinces of Egypt southwards, and is 

practically never found in Lower Egypt.

The head and neck of gold, minutely and very realistically modelled,

showing the wrinkled occiput, nostrils eyelids and eyebrows, and ears, 

and the partial covering of stiff-feathers on the neck - a distinctive