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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).
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Ptolemaic Period, c. 3rd - 2nd Century BCE.
Acc. No.: 26.763
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