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Hair ornament: E.67.1939

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Current Location: Exhibition: Made in Ancient Egypt, 3 October 2025 – 12 April 2026 (20th Century Gallery)

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These three rosettes are inlaid with red jasper using a cloissoné technique. The gold mounts are shaped so that they can be strung together, with triangular glass infills in the gaps between the rosettes. Loops on either side show how they were originally connected; the current stringing is modern. Almost identical rosettes were found in the burial of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III at Luxor, and other similar rosettes have been bought over the years and, together with a gold ‘headpiece’, were reconstructed as a wig-cover, but it is now uncertain if they actually belong together.

Unlike the other rosettes, these objects have the numbers 23, 28 and 35 in ancient Egyptian symbols impressed into gold mounts on the back. It seems likely that these were added by the jeweller to help when the whole ensemble of rosettes was to be put together.

Wig rosettes (3)

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Given by George Davis Hornblower, 1939

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.02 m
Width: 0.02 m

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1939) by Hornblower, G. D., OBE

Components of the work

Inlay composed of jasper green glass

Materials used in production

Gold

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Accession number: E.67.1939
Primary reference Number: 53753
Oldadmincategory: MW

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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 6 October 2025

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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