Diadem

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The chain is formed from two interfolded strips of gold. Traces reveal the three-dimensional flower had red and blue inlay. Ttraces of turquoise glass can be observed in the narrrow pointed sepals and the edging of the background petals. The background petals themselves appear to have been red: one retains a bit of carnelian inlay and others show traces of red cinnabar, which is a bedding material for red stones at this time.. The diadem might have been a funerary accoutrement, like a similar one found in an Achaemenid Period tomb at Sidon.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art