egypt-museum:Large wig rings of SithathoriunetTwo boxes in the jewelry niche of Sithathoriunet&r
egypt-museum: Large wig rings of Sithathoriunet Two boxes in the jewelry niche of Sithathoriunet’s tomb seem to have held her ceremonial wigs. The wooden boxes and hair had completely decomposed, but 1,251 gold rings in two sizes that had decorated one of the wigs were preserved. They have been placed on a modern wig in an arrangement suggested by a wooden head that the Metropolitan Museum excavated at Lisht, another Middle Kingdom royal cemetery. A gold crown and a pectoral with the name of Amenemhat III, both in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, were packed in the same box with the ornamented wig. From Tomb of Sithathoriunet, Lahun. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret II-Amenemhat III, ca. 1887-1813 BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- source link
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