Disk Made of Two Sheets of Gold, One Concave the Other Decorated with Feathers or Palm Fronds, ca. 1479–1425


Disk Made of Two Sheets of Gold, One Concave the Other Decorated with Feathers or Palm Fronds, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479–1425 , From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Gold, H. cm (5 3/4 in); W. 14 cm (5 1/2 in), This gold disk from the funerary equipment of three foreign wives of Thutmose III with its now open spaces for original inlay as well as incised decoration of palm fronds or feathers was previously understood as the head piece of a wig cover from which the rosettes 26


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