A Romano-Egyptian gilt copper alloy diadem
Circa 1st Century B.C.-2nd Century A.D.
Composed of ten separately-made laurel leaves applied to a band, with a central applied Osiris crown with ram's horns, sun disc and double-plume flanked by uraei, remains of gilding overall, 18cm diam.注脚Provenance:
Private collection, France, early 1980s.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 October 2009, lot 96.
Mr A. collection, Paris, acquired from the above sale.

Cf. a fragmentary copper alloy wreath with gilding at the Liverpool World Museum (acc. no. 15.2.07.14), discovered in Upper Egypt and dating to the Roman period.