Head Pendant or Bead
Head Pendant or Bead
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, probably Phoenicia or Carthage
DateLate 6th-5th century BCE
DimensionsMax L: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Max W: 5/8 in. (1.4 cm)
MediumRod-formed; tooled and applied features and suspension ring.
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.354E
Not on View
DescriptionSmall pendant in the likeness of a ram's head. Dark brown ground with a face striped in opaque white, with a few opaque yellow streaks; short opaque white ears; opaque yellow nostrils and mouth; opaque yellow eyes with dark brown centers; dark brown vertical suspension ring; medium brown curving horns wound with two or three parallel opaque white threads. Roughly pyramidal shape.
Published ReferencesRiefstahl, Rudolf M., "Ancient and Near Eastern Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 4, no. 2, 1961, p. 36, ill.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 24, ill.
Seefried, Monique, Les pendentifs en verre sure noyau des pays de la Mediterranee antique, Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, no 57, Rome, 1982, p. 134, no. E Ic2, figs. 6 and 47.9.
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. 45, p. 89, repr. (col.) p. 71.
6th-5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
6th through 5th centuries BCE
Late 6th-3rd century BCE
Late 6th - 3rd century BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
3rd century BCE
Sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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