Stake attention in this memory
The image displays a close-up of a white rectangular museum label, oriented vertically against a plain, dark grey background, likely a display wall or interior of a museum case. The label provides detailed information about an artifact, presumably part of an exhibition in London, United Kingdom. The most prominent feature is the black text printed on the label. The main title reads "Silver diadem of a queen". Below this, details indicate the period as "2nd INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, c. 1650–1550 BC", specifically "Early 16th Dynasty, about 1650 BC", and its likely origin from "Western Thebes, cemetery of Dra Abu el-Naga". Two paragraphs describe the diadem: 1. It highlights the rarity of Egyptian royal jewellery, noting the diadem's unique feature of two cobras, suggesting it belonged to a queen, most probably Queen Montuhotep, wife of King Djehuty. It mentions the burial was found intact between 1822 and 1825, and though the queen's body and coffin are lost, copies of the coffin's decoration made in 1832 exist in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 2. The second paragraph details that silver was more valuable than gold during that time. The cobras on the diadem are made of silver with higher gold and copper content. The headband features a basketwork design created by "chasing" the metal, and the cobras and streamers show early examples of metal engraving. At the bottom, the label includes "al-Sabah Collection" and the catalog number "2017.AESLoan.1". The lighting is even, making all text clearly legible. In the upper right background, out of focus, some red and blue rectangular shapes are faintly visible, possibly other exhibition elements.
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