Puabi's ever-evolving diadems
Three individual pieces of Queen Puabi’s diadems, a collection of 10,000 lapis lazuli beads and golden pendants, are on display currently at Penn Museum’s Middle East Galleries. They were once displayed as a six-piece set, and prior to that were all part of a monolithic object, raising the question of how were they originally originally assembled and worn in the first place.
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