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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 228680, member: 2844&quot;]That&#039;s what I though as a child, but no, she is wearing the Nekhbet crown, which was worn by the Pharaoh&#039;s wife. Nekhbet was the goddess of protection and one of the protectresses of the Pharaoh. She was represented as a vulture.</p><p>So strictly speaking not Cleopatra, who was a queen in her own right, not as a consort. She would have worn Macedonian/Greek dress anyway.</p><p>Nekhbet crown:</p><p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/68/30/45/6830451d16a2ce625c269792720f7439.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you, there were some very masculine looking women in 19th century art, remember some of those pre-Raphaelite women?</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F0e%2F5c%2F11%2F0e5c1167b96441947cadcea0b6593a80.jpg&amp;sp=e04a74d249a267467e6d5d0215219420" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2Fi%2Fpix%2F2013%2F09%2F19%2Farticle-0-1BE8A99E000005DC-693_634x773.jpg&amp;sp=200818c3e8a1600d56e55e5075af587e" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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