Wig rings of Sithathoryunet, on a modern wig

Overview Wig rings of Sithathoryunet, on a modern wig Middle Kingdom ca. 1887–1813 B.C. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 111 Two boxes in the jewelry niche of Sithathoryunet's tomb seem to have held her ceremonial wigs. The wooden boxes and hair had completely decomposed, but 1,251 gold rings in two sizes that had decorated one of the wigs were preserved. They have been placed on a modern wig in an arrangement suggested by a wooden head that the Metropolitan Museum excavated at Lisht, another Middle Kingdom royal cemetery. A gold crown and a pectoral with the name of Amenemhat III, both in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, were packed in the same box with the ornamented wig.