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}}The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a golden diadem with glittering jewels. It was said that the image of a screaming woman could be seen in it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tarnished Image]]'') | }}The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a golden diadem with glittering jewels. It was said that the image of a screaming woman could be seen in it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tarnished Image]]'') | ||
The origins of the headdress were unclear. The [[Azmec Corporation]] claimed it was created by the native race of [[Tarron (planet)|Tarron]], a race extinct long before the colonists arrived. When the [[First Doctor]] revealed that the Azmec account of the past was a lie, this story was thrown into doubt. The Tarronians rejected their history entirely, and asked the Doctor to dispose of the headdress along with other | The origins of the headdress were unclear. The [[Azmec Corporation]] claimed it was created by the native race of [[Tarron (planet)|Tarron]], a race extinct long before the colonists arrived. When the [[First Doctor]] revealed that the Azmec account of the past was a lie, this story was thrown into doubt. The Tarronians rejected their history entirely, and asked the Doctor to dispose of the headdress along with other artefacts claimed by Azmec to be historically significant. The Doctor dropped the items out of the [[TARDIS]] while in the [[Time Vortex]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tarnished Image (short story)|Tarnished Image]]'') | ||
Cast onto the time-winds, the diadem ended up on Earth, where it was discovered as part of a cache of jewelry by Heinreich Schliemann when he was excavating [[Troy]] in [[1873]]. He called the collection the Jewels of Helen, and his wife was famously photographed wearing the diadem. It was then lost in [[Berlin]] in [[1945]], before being rediscovered by David Gosthorpe prior to his death in [[1987]]. | Cast onto the time-winds, the diadem ended up on Earth, where it was discovered as part of a cache of jewelry by Heinreich Schliemann when he was excavating [[Troy]] in [[1873]]. He called the collection the Jewels of Helen, and his wife was famously photographed wearing the diadem. It was then lost in [[Berlin]] in [[1945]], before being rediscovered by David Gosthorpe prior to his death in [[1987]]. | ||
