Bronze crown
Archaeological museum of Chora
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Bronze crown
15th century BCE
Archaeological museum of Chora
Routsi, Myrsinochori, tholos tomb 1, Messenia
Diadem
Bronze/goldWidth: 23 cm x Height: 21 cm
Bronze crown from a female burial in tholos tomb 1 at Routsi, Myrsinochori. It is made of two crossing bands, tapering downwardly to a horizontal bronze band. Bronze pins were probably meant to attach the crown to a cloth or leather cover. A golden cross-shaped jewel at the top is made of two gold sheets, decorated with rosettes. The crown from Routsi is considered as the earliest found to this day and as a prototype for the modern European royal crowns.