Vulture Headdress Inlay

Cleveland Museum of Art

Vulture Headdress Inlay

Date
100–1 BCE
Medium
gold and semi-precious stones
Culture
Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Department
Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
101378

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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. When creating this headdress, artisans used numerous semiprecious stones with inset partitions to keep them separate. To ensure that the stones would stay in place, a resin-like material was used as an adhesive.

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Credit line
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Provenance
Said to be from the "Treasure of Dendara." | -1920: Ralph H. Blanchard, Cairo, Egypt, through Howard Carter, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1920-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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    Ancient Egyptian Glass Inlays

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