Head Pendant - Demon Mask
Head Pendant - Demon Mask
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, probably Phoenicia or Carthage
DateLate seventh through fifth centuries BCE
DimensionsLength: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm); Width: 3/8 in. (1 cm); Depth 3/8 in. (.9 cm)
MediumRod-formed; tooled and applied features and suspension ring.
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.354B
Not on View
DescriptionThis small pendant, shaped as a stylized demonic mask, was formed from rod-shaped glass with applied and tooled features. The pendant is roughly triangular in shape. Its original colors are difficult to determine due to weathering, though the ground appears to have been blue with other colored features now obscured. A suspension ring is included for wear.
Published ReferencesSeefired, 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. 77, no. A 28.
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. 38, p. 88, repr. (col.) p. 71.
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
6th through 5th centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Late 6th-5th century BCE
Third century BCE
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
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