It is of massive gold, and consists of three parallel bands set with turquoises.

On the front a vulture is represented with outspread wings, the feathers composed of green enamel, lapis lazuli, and carnelian, set in "cloisons" of gold.

The hair of the mummy was drawn through a massive gold diadem, scarcely as large as a bracelet.

The name of Ahmes is incrusted in blue paste upon an oblong plaque in the centre, flanked at each side by two little sphinxes which seem as if in the act of keeping watch over the inscription (fig.

301).