Gold Crown of Queen Tausret from KV 56

weighing 92 grammes, formed of a narrow band. 4 millimetres in breadth, and 0 m 175 in diameter. The circle is pierced at irregular intervals, varying from 25 to 43 millimetres, with sixteen holes, employed for attaching ornaments in the form of flowers, of which fourteen have been found. The flowers are made in two pieces. The corolla, which measures 3 centimetres in diameter, and is slightly concave, is composed of ten petals, hollow in the centre
and soldered at the edges, with rounded tips ; it is stamped out of gold foil. Four of the petals bear the royal cartouches; two of them, separated by another, which is uninscribed, present the nomen and the prenomen of Setui II.
The petals opposite these have the name of Queen Tauosrit
facing the opposite way.

Behind the corolla is a round-headed knob, 21 millimetres in
diameter, which represents the mass of pistils. To this is attached a ring intended to hold the metal wire that fastened the rosette to the crown; as this ring is larger than the hole, it cannot have fitted into it, and the flowers, therefore, must have been movable when attached to the crown.

Plate—Gold Diadem of Queen Tauosrit. Flowers as found : Coloured Plate - Rings and Ornaments, Gold Bracelets and Ornaments.

Theodore M. Davis, The Tomb of Siptah

1908

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