egypt-museum:Diadem of Princess KhenmetA gold crown of Princess “Khnemet”, daughter of K
egypt-museum:Diadem of Princess KhenmetA gold crown of Princess “Khnemet”, daughter of King “Amenemhat II”. This masterpiece was found in the tomb of “Khnemet” and her sister “Ita” in Dahshur. The crown is made of a network of interlaced gold wires that entangle nearly 200 small flowers, each with a carnelian eye and five turquoise-inlaid petals. The wires are tied to three pins on each side of five ‘crosses’, which are actually five clusters of lotus blossoms, and terminate at a pair of rings on the back of a sixth ‘cross’. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1991-1803 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. -- source link