Description (Catalog Card): Head Ornament Cloisonne work consisting of a circular piece of gold foil inlaid with lapis and carnelian. Lower portion of the ornament is cut to represent a crescent moon [drawing with color key: black=lapis inlay, grey=carnelian inlay, white= cold foil] 1:1 Part of the inlay missing. A second similar was found on the head hopelessly broken and fragmentary. These seem to have been worn as ornaments on top of the head possibly on the crown of a wig?1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 825     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli2     
Material (Catalog Card): Carnelian2     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): d 003     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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