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0965798 - The king's pendant in gold cloisonne depicting the vulture (Nekhabet) goddess of the South Nekhabet, Upper Egypt. Tukankhamen, by Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, page 177.
Nekheb (the modern el-Kâb, a few miles north of Edfu) was the capital of the Southern Kingdom; the vulture-goddess, Nekhabet, was its protecting deity. But at both capitals the hawk-god, Horus, was worshipped as the distinctive patron-deity of both kings.
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.
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