Nekhbet

Nekhbet

Nekhbet was a goddess in Egyptian mythology, who was depicted as a vulture. She was the protector of a city but grew into the protector of upper Egypt, protector of child birth and the protector of the pharaohs.

Nekhbet Media

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  A griffon vulture flying with its out-stretched wings

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  A lappet-faced vulture flying with its out-stretched wings

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  Nekhbet with outstretched wings below a row of uraei, from the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari

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  goddess Nekhbet, depiction as a woman with a white crown

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  Granite statue of Nekhbet from Sanam in Lower Nubia, Twenty-fifth Dynasty, Ashmolean Museum

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  Paintings of Nekhbet on the ceiling of the mortuary temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu

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  Nekhbet above the Nomen and prenomen of Ramesses III

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  Nekhbet next to Haremakhet on a column

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  A painted relief depicting Nekhbet in the Temple of Hatshepsut