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The Goddess Nekhbet, Temple of Hatshepsut The Goddess Nekhbet, Temple of Hatshepsut, tempera on paper by Charles K. Wilkinson for the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a 20th-century facsimile of a painting created c. 1479–58 bce at the Temple of Hatshepsut, near Luxor, Egypt.

Nekhbet

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Nekhbet, in Egyptian religion, 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.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Alicja Zelazko.