The figures and hieroglyphs are cut out in solid gold, delicately engraved with the burin, and stand in relief upon a ground-surface filled in with pieces of blue paste and lapis lazuli artistically cut.  A bracelet of more complicated workmanship, though of inferior execution, was found on the wrist of the queen (fig. 300).  It is of massive gold, and consists of three parallel bands set with turquoises.  On the front a vulture is represented with outspread wings, the feathers composed of green enamel, lapis lazuli, and carnelian, set in “cloisons” of gold.  The hair of the mummy was drawn through a massive gold diadem, scarcely as large as a bracelet.  The name of Ahmes is incrusted in blue paste upon an oblong plaque in the centre, flanked at each side by two little sphinxes which seem as if in the act of keeping watch over the inscription (fig. 301).  Round her neck was a large flexible gold chain, finished at each end by a goose’s head reversed.  These heads could be linked one in the other, when the chain needed to be fastened.  The scarabaeus pendant to this chain is incrusted upon the shoulder and wing-sheaths with blue glass paste rayed with gold, the legs and body being in massive gold.  The royal parure was completed by a large collar of the kind known as the Usekh (fig. 302).  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.  Two hawks hover to right and left of the king, above the heads of the gods.  The figures are outlined in cloisons of gold, and these were filled in with little plaques of precious stones and enamel, many of which have fallen out.  The effect of this piece is somewhat heavy, and if considered apart from the rest of the parure, its purpose might seem somewhat obscure.  In order to form a correct judgment, we have, however, to remember in what fashion the women of ancient Egypt were clad.  They wore a kind of smock of semi-transparent material, which came very little higher than the waist.  The chest and bosom, neck and shoulders, were bare; and the one garment was kept in place by only a slender pair of braces.  The rich clothed these uncovered parts with jewellery.  The Usekh collar half hid the shoulders and chest.  The pectoral masked the hollow between the breasts.  Sometimes even the breasts were covered with two golden cups, either painted or enamelled.  Besides the jewels found