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Head Pendant

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, probably from Phonenicia or Carthage
Date6th-5th century BCE
DimensionsLength: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Width: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm); Depth; 5/8 in. (1.6 cm)
MediumRod-formed; tooled and applied features and suspension ring.
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1976.60
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Collections
  • Glass
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. 134, no. E Ic 3, 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. 46, p. 89, repr. (col.) p. 71.

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