ancientpeoples:Ensemble of Rosettesc.1479-1425 BC18th Dynasty, New KingdomThese rosettes from the fu
ancientpeoples:Ensemble of Rosettesc.1479-1425 BC18th Dynasty, New KingdomThese rosettes from the funerary equipment of three foreign wives of Thutmose III have been displayed in various ways, since they came to the Metropolitan Museum in 1926. Most familiar to previous viewers is their reconstruction as part of a wig cover with as the head piece. Such a cover was first suggested by Herbert E. Winlock in 1937 and later modified. According to present understanding, the joining of the rosettes to the gold disk and the use of strands of rosettes as a wig cover are uncertain.(Source: The Metropolitan Museum) -- source link