A gold crown of Princess Khenmet, possibly daughter of King Amenemhat II.
She is mainly known from her unrobbed tomb containing a set of outstanding personal adornments.
This masterpiece was found in the tomb of Khnemet and her sister “Ita” in Dahshur. The crown is made of a network of interlaced gold wires that entangle nearly 200 small flowers, each with a carnelian eye and five turquoise-inlaid petals. The wires are tied to three pins on each side of five ‘crosses’, which are actually five clusters of lotus blossoms, and terminate at a pair of rings on the back of a sixth ‘cross’.
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1991-1803 BC. From Princess Khenmet’s burial next to the pyramid of Amenemhat II at Dahshur. Now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
imagine breaking up with someone when you’re both in your early 20s and they take your ship and fuck off, and then you become the best dressed in the galaxy and the leader of an entire city and live in a palace. and then your ex shows up to ask a favor and he’s like 35 living in that ship and hanging out with 22 year olds and using 5-in1 soap. that’s how lando calrissian feels
you ever think about how in star wars the four heroes that overthrew the tyrannical empire and inagurated a new government are the princess of a tragically destroyed planet, a wisecracking rogue, the last heir of a religious order of wizards who do actual literal magic, and………a city mayor
i should clarify that im not disparaging lando here i’m just wondering what it’s like to be in a space fantasy adventure as the ONE member of your friend group who knows what a zoning law is
