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Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, probably Phoenicia or Carthage
Date6th through 5th centuries BCE
DimensionsLength: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Width: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm); Depth: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm)
MediumRod-formed; tooled and applied features and suspension ring.
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.354C
Not on View
DescriptionSmall pendant in the likeness of a bearded male head. Made of rod-formed glass, the figure has a dark blue ground with a matching dark blue face, rounded beard, ears, and vertical suspension ring. Facial features include opaque white lips, a small white protrusion at the center of the forehead, and opaque white eyes with dark blue centers. A dark blue headband, horizontally streaked with opaque white, encircles the head. The pendant is cylindrical in shape.
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, pp. 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. 43, p. 89, repr. (col.) p. 71.

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