Gold diadem, Mycenae, 1600 BC
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This highly detailed embossed sheet of gold is a diadem from Mycenae that was crafted around 1600-1500 BC. Higgins (1981:169, fig. 211), documents a similar item as “Gold diadem from Shaft-Grave III at Mycenae. Embossed diadems of very thin gold, apparently mounted on a backing of leather or fabric, seem to have been generally worn by Mycenaean women of high rank.” It may be a funerary diadem, as pointed out by Hampe (1981:199, Plate 314): “The headband is made of thin sheet gold and tapers at both ends. These durable objects decorated the hair of the living, but a diadem from Shaft Grave IV must have adorned the head of someone who had already died.” Bibliography (for this item)Hampe, Roland, and Erika Simon1981 The Birth of Greek Art from the Mycenaean to the Archaic Period. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. (plate 314 above 199) Higgins, Reynold 1981 Minoan and Mycenaean Art. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. (169, fig. 211) |
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