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# Sophia Schliemann in 1874 wearing a diadem from the Treasure of Priam smuggled out of Troy
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/vse-navernoe-pomniat-vyskazyvanie-agaty-kristi-chto-khorosho-byt-zhenoi-arkheologa-ved-s-vozrastom-zhenshchina-stanovitsia-dlia-nego-vse-interesnee/
- Published: 2021-11-16T16:59:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:55:40.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, The East, Mores, People

Everyone, no doubt, remembers Agatha Christie's [remark](https://theparnassian.com/vspominaetsia-tsitata-agaty-kristi-o-muzhe-arkheologe-kotoryi-khorosh-dlia-zhenshchiny-tem-chto-s-vozrastom-ona-delaetsia-dlia-nego-vse-interesnee/?ref=theparnassian.com) that it is good to be an archaeologist's wife, since the older a woman grows, the more interesting he finds her. Sophia Schliemann would perhaps have added: and besides, one may wear the freshly discovered treasures.

In 1874 Sophia, the wife of Heinrich Schliemann, was photographed in a great golden diadem from the so-called Treasure of Priam, which the archaeologist had only just unearthed in ancient Troy. Schliemann had, in fact, concealed it from the Ottoman authorities and smuggled it out in secret: the find became known only when Sophie Schliemann began appearing in society in antique gold jewellery plainly not purchased at an antique shop on a whim.

![](https://theparnassian.com/content/images/2026/09/photo_5432@16-11-2021_19-59-17.jpg)