IDENTIFIERS
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id:	53753
accession number:	E.67.1939

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 7 April 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: wig rosettes (3)
object type: 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.
title:	hair ornament

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities
creditline: given by George Davis Hornblower, 1939

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/53753





CATEGORIES
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category: jewellery

DATING
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DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: m
value: 0.02

dimension: Width
units: m
value: 0.02



CITATIONS
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Jewellery
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