{
"data": {
"id": 101378,
"accession_number": "1920.1991",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Vulture Headdress Inlay, 100\u20131 BCE. Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE\u2013395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305\u201330 BCE). Gold and semi-precious stones; overall: 3 x 2.8 cm (1 3/16 x 1 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1920.1991",
"current_location": "107 Egyptian",
"title": "Vulture Headdress Inlay",
"creation_date": "100\u20131 BCE",
"creation_date_earliest": -100,
"creation_date_latest": -1,
"artists_tags": [],
"culture": [
"Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE\u2013395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305\u201330 BCE)"
],
"technique": "gold and semi-precious stones",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
"collection": "Egypt - Ptolemaic Dynasty",
"type": "Jewelry",
"measurements": "Overall: 3 x 2.8 cm (1 3/16 x 1 1/8 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"height": 0.03,
"height_inch": 1,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.1875,
"width": 0.028,
"width_inch": 1,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.125
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 441907,
"title": "Howard Carter: Before the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb",
"description": "Howard Carter: Before the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb. The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 13, 1992-May 31, 1993).",
"opening_date": "1992-11-13T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 227047,
"title": "Queens of Egypt",
"description": "Queens of Egypt. Grimaldi Forum - Monaco, MC 98001 Monaco cedex (organizer) (July 12-September 10, 2008).",
"opening_date": "2008-07-12T00:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
{
"description": "Howard Carter: Before Tutankhamun, The British Museum, London, England, (November, 18, 1992-May 31, 1993).",
"opening_date": "1993-05-31T00:00:00"
}
]
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "Said to be from the \"Treasure of Dendara.\"",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "Ralph H. Blanchard, Cairo, Egypt, through Howard Carter, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "-1920",
"sortorder": 2
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "1920-",
"sortorder": 3
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [
"3937.20"
],
"did_you_know": "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.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "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.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60747379"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1920.1991-vulture-headdress-in"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "The Illustrated London News (3 November 1928)",
"page_number": "p. 825",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bates, Kenneth F. The Enamelist. Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co, 1967.",
"page_number": "p. 4",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cooney, John D. \"Three Minor Masterpieces of Egyptian Art.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 1 (1975)",
"page_number": "pp. 11-14, figs. 1-3",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152570"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Arielle P. Kozloff. An Introduction to the Art of Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 1983.",
"page_number": "p. 16",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "J. Paul Getty Museum, and Getty Conservation Institute. In the Tomb of Nefertari: Conservation of the Wall Paintings. [Malibu, Calif.]: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992.",
"page_number": "p. 59, fig. 29",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Reeves, Nicholas, and John H. Taylor. Howard Carter: Before Tutankhamun. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993.",
"page_number": "cat. p. 176",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Berman, Lawrence M. \u201cLa Collection Egyptienne du Cleveland Museum of Art,\u201d Bulletin de la Societe francaise d\u2019egyptologie.(October 1995): 14-29.",
"page_number": "p. 19, fig. 3",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Boha\u010d. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 495; Mentioned: p. 495-6",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Ziegler, Christiane. Queens of Egypt: From Hetepheres to Cleopatra. Monaco: Grimaldi Forum, 2008.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 137, p. 311",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "James, T. G. H. Howard Carter and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Object Lessons, Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "p. 69",
"url": null
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1991",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1991/1920.1991_web.jpg",
"width": "935",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "515459",
"filename": "1920.1991_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1991/1920.1991_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "3248",
"filesize": "5228375",
"filename": "1920.1991_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1991/1920.1991_full.tif",
"width": "4195",
"height": "4007",
"filesize": "50460804",
"filename": "1920.1991_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1991/1920.1991_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "853",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "500178"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1991/1920.1991_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "3248",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "5647410"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1991/1920.1991_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "4024",
"height": "4212",
"filesize": "50879472"
},
"date_created": "2007-04-23T14:52:32",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 101378,
"creators": [],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1920-12-30T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": -100,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "100\u20131 BCE",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-05-29 05:29:02.155000"
}
}