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Head pendant, possibly female
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Head pendant, possibly female

Place of OriginProbably Eastern Mediterranean
DateThird century BCE
DimensionsLength: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Width: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm); Depth; 7/16 in. (1.1 cm)
MediumRod-formed; tooled and applied features, suspension ring, and backing.
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.354N
Not on View
Published ReferencesSeefried, Monique, Les pendentifs en verre sur noyau des pays de la Mediterranee antique, Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, no. 57, Rome, 1982, p. 124, no. D II 33, 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. 61, p. 92, repr. (col.) p. 72.

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