Head of a Queen Wearing a Vulture Headdress

New Kingdom

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 115

This serene looking queen’s rank is identified by the vulture headdress she wears, although its head now missing. Her delicate features and slightly elongated head indicate that she must date before the Tuthmoside period, but parallels are scarce. It is difficult to identify where in the prior one hundred or so years before that family’s rule begins she belongs. Given the damage to the back of the statue, the queen seems to have been attached to another element now missing.

Head of a Queen Wearing a Vulture Headdress, Limestone, paint

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Head of a Queen Wearing a Vulture Headdress, Limestone, paint
Head of a Queen Wearing a Vulture Headdress, Limestone, paint

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