Jewelry

18th dynasty pharaonic crown

Image Title:
18th Dynasty Pharaonic Crown 

Note:
"This unique crown, consisting of a band of electrum 1.5 cm wide perforated to take tie-strings at the rear and mounted with rosettes and animals heads, appears to have been made in Egypt largely under Asiatic inspiration, if it is not an Asiatic import. In the Egyptian 18th Dynasty, it became the fashion to decorate the diadems of princesses and lesser queens with the figure of a gazelle's head in place of the uraeus or vulture of principal queens. This crown with its four gazelle heads may have been part of the trousseau of a foreign princess sent as a bride for one of the [Ancient Egyptian] Pharaohs according to the [international] diplomacy of the age." (Cyril Aldred. Jewels of the Pharaohs. ed. Thames & Hudson Ltd. London: 1978)

Photo by:
John Campana

Image Source:
Flickr

Subject:
Jewelry - Kemet - Gold - Princess

Date:
1543–1292 BC

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Image:
SA-JWY-9

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