Head pendant
Head pendant
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, probably Phoenicia or Carthage
DateLate 6th through 5th century BCE
DimensionsLength: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Width: 9/16 in. (1.4 cm); Depth: 9/16 in. (1.4 cm)
MediumRod-formed; tooled and applied features and suspension ring.
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.354F
Not on View
DescriptionSmall pendant in the likeness of a ram's head. The object has a dark-colored ground with a face streaked with opaque white and possibly opaque yellow. The eyes are dark. The small vertical suspension ring is of uncertain color. The curving horns are in a dark ground, streaked with opaque white threads. The pendant has an elongated pyramidal shape..
Published ReferencesSeefried, Monique, Les pendentifs en verre sur moyau des pays de la Mediterranee antique, Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, no 57, Rome, 1982, p. 134, no. E Ic 1, fig. 6.
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. 47, p. 89, repr. (col.) p. 71.
Late 6th-5th century BCE
6th-5th century BCE
6th through 5th century BCE
Late 6th-3rd century BCE
Late 7th through 5th century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
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