Head Pendant
Head Pendant
Place of OriginProbably Eastern Mediterranean
DateThird century BCE
DimensionsLength: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Width: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm); Depth; 7/16 in. (1.1 cm)
MediumRod-formed; tooled and applied features, suspension ring, and backing.
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.354M
Not on View
The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 23, ill.
Seefried, Monique, Les pendentifs en verre sur noyau des pays de la Mediterranee antique, Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, no. 57, Rome, 1982, p. 124, no. D II 32, figs. 6 and 47.8.
Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 60, p. 92, repr. (col.) p. 72.
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
3rd century BCE
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