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MM 1990:028 :: diadem

Object description: It is composed of twenty-four oval, triple-nerved laeves of gold foil, arranged in three rows on either side of a central rosette consistning of a round boss encircled by two sets of petals, between six radiating triple-nerved leaves. The leaves and the rosettes are sewn with wires to a ribbon of thin gold sheet, the rounded ends of which are stamped with a design now mostly effaced by crushing, with the exception of two small Gorgoneia, set transversely and turned in opposite directions. The ends of the diadem are pierced for a string which passed round the back of the head and held the wreath in place above the forehead.

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Inventory number

MM 1990:028

Serie nummer

21961

Object

diadem

Country - Findspot

Italy : Europe

Geographic name, alternative

Etruria.

Material

Gold; Metal

Acquisition

From the collection of Carl Kempe, 1990.

Description

It is composed of twenty-four oval, triple-nerved laeves of gold foil, arranged in three rows on either side of a central rosette consistning of a round boss encircled by two sets of petals, between six radiating triple-nerved leaves. The leaves and the rosettes are sewn with wires to a ribbon of thin gold sheet, the rounded ends of which are stamped with a design now mostly effaced by crushing, with the exception of two small Gorgoneia, set transversely and turned in opposite directions. The ends of the diadem are pierced for a string which passed round the back of the head and held the wreath in place above the forehead.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

400-200 BC

Name - Collected by

Kempe, Carl

Source - http: digitaltmuseum.org, libris.kb.se, collections.smvk.se, www.ekolsund.se, collections.smvk.se, www.becken.se, kulturarvsdata.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Exhibition - Current

Guldrummet 2022

Time - Start: 20222022

Exhibition - Previously

Etruskerna i 3D

Time - Start: 2012-02-102012-02-10
Time - End: 2012-09-022012-09-02

Guldrummet

Time - Start: 19891989
Time - End: 20222022

Exhibition, Part of - Previously

Guldrummet - Showcase 11:03.

Comments

Earlier inv.nr. CK 339.

Gold wreaths of this type were highly in vogue in Etruria during the fourth century and later, to judge from the great number of Etruscan depictions representing gods and goddesses, men and women, wearing such ornaments. A considerable number of wreaths of this type has been preserved.

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