It is finished at each end with a golden hawk's head inlaid with blue enamel, and consists of rows of scrolls, four-petalled fleurettes, hawks, vultures, winged uraei, crouching jackals, and figures of antelopes pursued by tigers.

The whole of these ornaments are of gold _repousse_ work, and they were sewn upon the royal winding sheet by means of a small ring soldered to the back of each.
Upon the breast, below this collar, hung a square jewel of the kind known as "pectoral ornaments" (fig.

303).

The general form is that of a naos, or shrine.

Ahmes stands upright in a papyrus-bark, between Amen and Ra, who pour the water of purification upon his head and body.