Head Pendant or Bead
Head Pendant or Bead
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, Syria or Palestine
DateLate 6th - 3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 1 1/8 in. (3 cm); W: 25/32 in. (2.0 cm); Depth: 11/16 in. (1.7 cm)
MediumGlass, rod-formed, tooled and applied features and suspension ring
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1976.57
Not on View
DescriptionPendant in the likeness of a bearded male head. Dark ground (appearing black) with an opaque white face; black pointed beard, eyebrows, and hair; vestiges of a black vertical suspension ring; opaque white ears with opaque yellow rings in the earlobes; opaque yellow lips; opaque white eyes outlined in black with black centers. Cylindrical shape.
Published ReferencesSeefried, Monique, "Les pendentifs en verre...du musée national du Bardo et du musée national de Carthage," Karthago, XVII, 1976, pp. 37-66.
Seefried, Monique, "Les premiers bijoux des verriers antiques," Connaissance des Arts, no. 292, June 1976, pp. 44-49.
Gläser der Antike, Sammlung Oppenländer, ed. Axel von Saldern et al., Hamburg, 1974, pp. 82-84.
Grose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 69, 72, repr. fig. 6.
Grose, David, 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, 1989, p. 88, cat. no. 40.
Markoe, Glenn, "A nation of artisans," Archaeology, vol. 43, no. 2, Mar/Apr. 1990, p. 32, repr.
Page, Jutta-Annette, "Glass as Jewels: An Uneasy Relationship", in GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry, Stuttgart, Arnoldsche, 2007, p. 49, fig. 2, p. 50 (col.).
Tait, Hugh, ed., 5000 Years of Glass, London, The British Museum Press, 2012, fig. 16, p. 240.
Late 7th through 5th century BCE
Late 6th-3rd century BCE
Late 7th through 5th century BCE
6th through 5th century BCE
6th through 5th century BCE
5th or 4th century BCE
Late 6th-5th century BCE
6th-5th century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
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