Nut is shown here as a woman with vulture's wings
outspread to symbolize her function as a protectress.
It is a role that she is often represented as
performing on the underside of the lids of coffins.
All around her body are hieroglyphic inscriptions,
of which there are three in all. At the top are the
king's throne and personal names, separated by the
title "Lord of the Two Lands" followed by "The Great
and Glorious Nut," and, beneath the wings of the
goddess, "Words spoken by Nut: 'I have spread my
arms over my son, king Nebkheperura, true of voice,
I have protected the beauty of the Lord [of the Two
Lands] Tutankhamun like Ra; [it was] what I did for
my son Unennefer. Thy father will protect this thy
body.'"
The face and limbs of the goddess are
represented in light blue glaze inlay, an
appropriate color for a sky deity. Her headdress is
made of dark blue glass, which is also used for the
lower part of her collar, from which a panel
pectoral, of the kind mentioned above, appears to be
suspended.
Both of the shrine-shaped pectorals were found in
the pedestal supporting a recumbent figure of the
jackal of Anubis in the so-called treasury of the
king's tomb.