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| ID: 901000076 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000076 | Record Type: Religion/Mythology/Legend |
 | Nekhbet (Egyptian diety) | |
| Note: In Egyptian religion, a vulture goddess who was the protector of Upper Egypt and especially its rulers. Nekhbet was frequently portrayed as spreading her wings over the pharaoh while grasping in her claw the cartouche symbol or other emblems. She also appeared as a woman, often with a vulture’s head, wearing a white crown, and was sometimes depicted suckling the pharaoh. The center of Nekhbet's cult was El-Kāb (Greek: Eileithyiaspolis), but her principal epithet made her the goddess of Hierakonpolis (or Nekhen), the ancient town opposite El-Kāb, on the west bank of the Nile River. | |
| Nekhbet (Egyptian diety) (preferred,English-P,D,N) |
| Nekhebet (Egyptian diety) (English,U,N) |
| | Legend, Religion, Mythology (P) |
| | ....<Egyptian iconography> (P) |
| | ........<Egyptian characters> (P) |
| | ............Nekhbet (Egyptian diety) (I) |
| counterpart is .... Wadjet | |
| ..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Egyptian iconography, Egyptian characters, Wadjet (Egyptian deity)) [901000077] |
| flourished/active in .... El-Kâb | |
| .....(Aswān, Egypt, Africa) (TGN) |
| takes the form of .... vulture (general) | |
| .....(Aves (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
| patron/protector of .... Upper Egypt | |
| .....(Egypt, Africa) (TGN) |
| role/characteristic is .... deity | |
| .....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
| culture/religion is .... Ancient Egyptian (culture) | |
| .....(Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
| Nekhbet (Egyptian diety) |
| ................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) |
| Nekhebet (Egyptian diety) |
| ................Bunson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (2002) 274 |
| ................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Nekhbet," accessed 2 February 2011 |
| ................ Bunson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (2002) 221 |
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