Head pendant
Head pendant
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, probably Phoenicia or Carthage
DateLate 6th through 5th centuries 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. Dark colored ground with a face streaked with opaque white and possibly opaque yellow. Dark eyes; small vertical suspension ring of uncertain color; curving horns in a dark ground with opaque white streaks or threads. 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.
6th-5th century BCE
Late 6th-5th century BCE
6th through 5th centuries BCE
Late 6th-3rd century BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Late seventh through fifth centuries BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
Third century BCE
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