Head Pendant - Demon Mask
Head Pendant - Demon Mask
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, probably Phoenicia or Carthaginian
DateLate seventh through fifth centuries BCE
DimensionsL: 1 in. (2.6 cm); W: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); D: 7/16 in. (1.1 cm)
MediumRod-formed; tooled and applied features and suspension ring
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.354A
Not on View
DescriptionHead pendant in the likeness of a demonic mask. Dark ground (appearing black) with a vertical blue suspension ring and ears, opaque yellow eyebrows and beard, blue nose, and opaque white circular eyes with opaque blue centers. Roughly triangular shape.
Head pendant in the likeness of a demonic mak. Dark ground (appearing black) with a vertical blue suspension ring and ears, opaque yellow eyebrows and beard, blue nose, and opaque white circular eyes with opaque blue centers. Roughly triangluar shape.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," TMA Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 72, fig. 6.
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, pp. 77, no. A 27.
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. 37, p. 88, repr. (col.) p. 71.
6th through 5th centuries BCE
Late 6th - 3rd century BCE
Sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th-3rd century BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th-5th century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
3rd century BCE
Fifth or fourth centuries BCE
6th-5th century BCE
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