Cap ornaments as remounted

If we turn to the minor arts it is clear that the jewellers of the Twelfth Dynasty had reached a level of technical skill never exceeded at any other period of Egyptian history. Typical of the period are the magnificent necklaces with their big beads of amethyst and carnelian and the marvellously neat precision with which semi-precious stones are inlaid into cloisons of gold. The finest pieces of jewellery come from the tombs of ladies of the royal family at Dahshur and Lahun and are exhibited in Cairo and in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.J. de Morgan, Fouilles à Dahchour, 1, 11 (Vienna, 1895, 1903); Guy Brunton, Lahun, 1, The Treasure (London, 1920); Emile Vernier, Catalogue general du Musée du Caire, Bijoux et orfivreries (Cairo, 1927), plates i, ii, vii, viii, xxxviii, lxvi-lxxxi; Cyril Aldred, Jewels of the Pharaohs (London, 1971); Alix Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptian Jewellery (London, 1971). Adela Oppenheim, ‘The Jewellery of Queen Weret.’ Egyptian Archaeology, 9, 1996, 26. Two