Headdress

Headdresses contain multiple items from wreaths and diadems to hair combs and rings. Most of these are made of precious metals and/or beads of semi-precious stone. Usually, the more elaborate the headdresses are, the higher the status of the person.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
12466	(none)	1929,1017.26	(none)	Hair ring. Gold. Three coils of fairly thick gold wire. Found not on the head but with the silver vase etc by the hands, between the 2 earrings U.12467[A-B], as if the had been tied together.
12634	(none)	1929,1017.52	(none)	Gold ribbon. Gold ribbon. Worn across forehead and coiled to contain intertwined coils. Ends rounded off and perforated. Broken in 3 pieces.
12704K	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Stone vase. White calcite. Type same as U.12277 [Type] LII. [B] (2) Stone vase. White calcite. Spill type. [drawing 1:5] [C] (3) Stone bowl grey steatite. Broken but complete [Type] LXXXVI. [D] (4) Stone bowl. White calcite. [Type] LIII. [drawing 2:5] [E] (5) Three silver finger rings: corroded together - only one intact - consisting of 3 1/2 coils of fine wire. [F] (6) Remains of copper pin with fluted lapis ball head. Type V B. [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: spread eagles and rampant gazelles (?). Below: Gazelles. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Rampant lions crossed and gazelles. [I] (9) Beads. Lapis bugles and double conoids. Carnelian bugles and rings and some silver wire pendants much decayed. See field note. The silver spiral pendants had 4 circles of spiral coils made out of a single strip of wire thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] [J] Also in the necklace a minute lapis lazuli frog amulet. [K] Round forehead thin gold ribbon. [drawing] [L] Large double conoid carnelian beads and a few bugles and one calcite bead shaped thus [reference to drawing], diamond shaped in section.
12715D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Necklace. Small lapis and silver beads. [B] (2) Copper pin. Type VI B. With lapis ball head. Tip broken [C] (3) Silver wire earring 2 1/2 spiral coils. [D] (4) Silver hair ribbon. Fragments in poor condition.
13044	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver diadem. Elliptical. Bent to rest flat on forehead. Broken in 2 pieces.
13790	(none)	1930,1213.2	(none)	Gold bandeau. A plain strip of metal ribbon with rounded and pierced ends.
13791A	(none)	1930,1213.6	(none)	[A-B] 2 hair-rings. Gold. Spiral coils of gold wire.
13793	(none)	1930,1213.14	(none)	Frontlet. 2 lengths of gold chain. I gold & 2 carnelian bugle beads square in section; 2 ribbed globular gold beads, 2 ribbed globular lapis beads.
13794	(none)	1930,1213.12	(none)	Frontlet. 2 lengths of gold chain. 1 gold and 2 carnelian bugle beads; 4 small gold beads.
13795	(none)	1930,1213.15	(none)	Frontlet. 2 lengths of gold chain (one broken) 1 gold & 2 (discolored) lapis facetted lentoid beads, 4 carnelian ring beads.
13796	(none)	1930,1213.13	(none)	Frontlet. 2 lengths of gold chain. 1 gold & 2 (discolored) lapis facetted lentoid beads; 4 carnelian rings.
14095	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper hair pin. Broken in 2 pieces.
14257	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper head gear. Fragment in poor condition. A triangular strip of copper capped by three copper knobs-possible a comb. [drawing]
14315	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold diadem. Engraved with a single rosette. [drawing 1:1]
14439A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold diadem. [drawing 1:1]
14470A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver comb. With 5 prongs each decorated with a lapis lazuli ball bead.
14472A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold ribbon headdress. 5 or 6 strips of thin gold ribbon intertwined round head.
14482A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Head dress. Gold spiral filigree open work spacers and gold rosettes with lapis lazuli centers. Strung in the normal manner between lapis cylindricals and carnelian ring beads.
15301B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: (A)[A-E] A pair of small lunate gold earrings; (B) Narrow gold ribbon twisted spirally; (C)[C and F-G] 3 gold finger rings, one made of two hoops of thin gold wire, the other two of sheet metal with the edges bent over inwards to look like 2 solid loops; (D) Beads, lapis, carnelian & agate (sliver beads all decayed) forming 2 strings(?)
15310A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: (A) Narrow gold ribbon spirally twisted: (B) Gold finger ring made from a strip of thin metal with the edges curled over to imitate 2 solid hoops; (C) Beads from necklace: carnelian, lapis, gold, hematite, agate, steatite: for order see field notes.; (D) Small gold and lapis ball head; (E) Small lapis & carnelian beads (only about 5 altogether, mixed in box with (D). See Field Notes.
15311A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Gold fillets; 1 of 2. Of very thin metal and one small lunate gold earring. [drawing]
15311B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Gold fillets; 2 of 2. Of very thin metal and one small lunate gold earring. [drawing]
15319	(none)	1930,1213.3	(none)	Gold fillet. [drawing]
15457A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 gold ribbon frontlets. Perforated at each end. [drawing 1:1]
17034	(none)	(none)	(none)	Hair pin. Copper. Bent head. Circular in section [drawing 1:1]