Head Pendant
Head Pendant
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. Dark blue ground with a dark blue face, rounded beard, ears, and vertical suspension ring; opaque white lips and small protrusion at the center of the forehead; opaque white eyes with dark blue centers; dark blue headband streaked horizontally with opaque white. Cylindrical shape.
Small head pendant in the likeness of a demonic mask. Probably in a blue ground with features in other colors that are obscured by weathering. Roughly triangular 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.
Late 6th-3rd century BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
Fifth or fourth centuries BCE
Sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th - 3rd century BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
6th-5th century BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
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