The vulture headdress over the wig and the vulture costume wrapped around the dress—the bird's body and tail are visible at the level of the forearm—identify this figure as a goddess, or a queen in the guise of a goddess. Although the plaque's full-figured ideal of feminine beauty had harbingers in earlier Egyptian art, it was most at home in the Ptolemaic Period.
Catalogue Description:
Gold plate repousse silver panel showing a queen or goddess in a feather garment and a feather headdress and wearing an engraved broad collar. Probably part of an incrustation for a shrine or other piece of furniture.
