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0965803 - Head of a dummy of the young Tutankhamen wearing a compromise between the crown of the kings of Lower Egypt and the headdress of Nefertiti. Stuccoed and painted wood. Tukankhamen, by Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, page 194.
Kings are often represented wearing the nemes headcloth, a piece of cloth pulled tight across the forehead and tied at the back, with two flaps hanging on the sides. Cobra (uraeus) and vulture heads were worn on the forehead.
The vulture was the symbol of Upper Egypt. Pharaohs wore the uraeus (cobra) and the head of a vulture on their foreheads as symbols of royal protection. The goddess Nekhbet was also portrayed as a vulture.
©2003 Credit:Topham Picturepoint
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