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Golden Wreath

Wreaths like this were used to crown athletic victors in the Greek world and the writer Athenaeus of Nitocris (c. 2nd-3rd Century CE) writes about guests at banquets in Alexandria wearing them (some 400 years after the date of this wreath).

Provenance unknown.

Ptolemaic Period, c. 3rd - 2nd Century BCE.

Acc. No.: 26.763

Ostraca from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Head of a Ptolemaic King

Anthropoid Coffin

Coffin Decorated with the Book of the Dead

Relief of a Seated God

Model of a Lion's Head

Model of a Lion's Head

Statue of a Crocodile

Statue of a Crocodile

Sarcophagus of Wereshnefer, Priest of the Goddesses Mut, Nephthys, Sekmet, Neith, Satis

Sarcophagus of Wereshnefer, Priest of the Goddesses Mut, Nephthys, Sekmet, Neith, Satis

Sarcophagus of Wereshnefer, Priest of the Goddesses Mut, Nephthys, Sekmet, Neith, Satis

Sarcophagus of Wereshnefer, Priest of the Goddesses Mut, Nephthys, Sekmet, Neith, Satis

Sarcophagus of Wereshnefer, Priest of the Goddesses Mut, Nephthys, Sekmet, Neith, Satis

Sarcophagus of Wereshnefer, Priest of the Goddesses Mut, Nephthys, Sekmet, Neith, Satis

Wooden Statue of a Cat with a Scarab Beetle between Its Ears

Wooden Statue of a Cat with a Scarab Beetle between Its Ears

Statue of a Recumbent Lion

Waterspout in the Shape of a Lion

A Pharaoh Standing with Sistrums before Hathor

Relief of the Royal Ka

Limestone Relief

Limestone Relief

Horus Falcon Wearing the Double Crown

Horus Falcon Wearing the Double Crown

Horus Falcon Wearing the Double Crown

Head of a Mature Man

Head of a Man with Tight Curly Hair

Head of a Roman Nobleman, Possibly Marc Anthony

Cartonnage Funerary Assembly

Cartonnage Funerary Assembly

Right Eye from an Anthropoid Coffin

Head of a King or Deity

Faience Bust of Isis

Faience Bust of Isis

Three Small Erotic Sculptures

Green Basalt Sculpture of an Idealised Head

Sketch of Osiris

Head of an Official (left) and Head of a Man with a Rosette Diadem (right)

Small Silver Crocodile Head and Ibis

Furniture Ornament or Finial in the Shape of a Duck or Goose

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