Bronze Age Diadem in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2010

Diadem
Copper alloy
Bronze Age
Made 1200-800 BC in the Carpathian Basin region, east-central Europe

Accession # 2000.281.1

It is not clear how this headpiece would have been worn, though stone sculptures from an earlier period suggest that the spiral terminals would have been in the back, pointing downward. Diadems, which are extremely rare, were probably worn exclusively by women and children of high rank.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.