Vulture Headdress Inlay
Cleveland Museum of Art

Vulture Headdress Inlay

100–1 BCE

gold and semi-precious stones
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

When creating this headdress, artisans used numerous semiprecious stones with inset partitions to keep them separate. To ensure that the stones would stay in place, a resin-like material was used as an adhesive.

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