he cap is the largest part of the nemes, contrary to temporal areas, and corresponds to the higher part of the headcloth, like the round part placing itself at the rear of the head, above the shoulders.

With the origin, it had to contain the heavy wig with braids which the sovereigns carried, as us the statue of Djoser shows it discovered in the serdab of its funerary complex, in Saqqarah.

Of face, the cap cap is composed of three parts :

- the higher edge (1),
- the base (2), which corresponds to the higher edge of the frontal headband,
- side edges (3), delimiting the cap of temporal areas.

Of profile, the cap presents four different general forms which it will adopt according to times :

- the form (1), very round with the back and returning clearly towards the interior above the shoulders, is found only with the Old Kingdom,
- the form (2), punt with the back, belongs to the reign of Sesostris Ier,
- the form (3), very convex, during the Middle Kingdom,
- the form (4), of the New Kingdom to the Greek and Roman sovereigns.

- the form (1), slightly round, is found mainly with the Old Kingdom, but it is possible to find it during the Late Kingdom,
- the form (2), most current, is present in the majority of the nemes of Middle Kingdom until the Greco-Romans times ,
- the form (3), at the very marked ends, appears sporadically under Amenemhat III for the Middle Kingdom, then in a way more marked with the New Kingdom, mainly under the reigns of Ameénophis IV, Seti I and Ramses II.