The Wesekh Collar
The broad beaded collar worn across the chest and shoulders by pharaohs, queens, nobles, and gods, built of rows of faience and semiprecious beads and capped with golden falcon-headed terminals, the name wesekh meaning 'broad'. Such collars were given as royal gifts, as the Amarna letters record the sending of broad collars of gold between courts, and they were buried with the dead, who are shown in tomb scenes receiving them from the gods. Tutankhamun's burial yielded dozens in gold, glass, carnelian, and turquoise-coloured faience, many laid directly on the mummy. The weight and splendour of