Pharaoh Tutankhamun and the god Osiris. Detail
Detail. Tutankhamun embraces the god Osiris who welcomes him into the afterlife. The king is followed by his ka, who on his head, above his long tripartite wig, bears the hieroglyphic sign 'ka', consisting of two raised arms. The king wears a short skirt and the Nemes, an exclusively royal headdress, made of a rectangular cloth that was placed on the sovereign's head and passed behind the ears, creating two bands at the sides of the neck that fell on the chest (elements that are often compared to the wings of a falcon in texts), while the back was knotted into a braid that fell on the back. From the wall paintings of royal tombs we know that the hairstyle was in horizontal blue and gold stripes.
