Glass head pendant
Semi-opaque turquoise blue, with additions in opaque white and brownish red, and translucent cobalt blue.
Cylindrical with large rod hole at bottom, flattened on back and indented on top; horizontal rounded edge at back, front projecting downwards; applied suspension loop on top of head.
Applied row of small curls across forehead in cobalt blue; upper half of face in red, with long blue eyebrows and blue and white stratified eyes; forked beard in turquoise blue with lips and ears in red, and earrings above and below ear in white.
Intact, but missing curls on proper right side of forehead and lower blob of right earring; dulling, slight pitting, and some encrustation.
Cylindrical with large rod hole at bottom, flattened on back and indented on top; horizontal rounded edge at back, front projecting downwards; applied suspension loop on top of head.
Applied row of small curls across forehead in cobalt blue; upper half of face in red, with long blue eyebrows and blue and white stratified eyes; forked beard in turquoise blue with lips and ears in red, and earrings above and below ear in white.
Intact, but missing curls on proper right side of forehead and lower blob of right earring; dulling, slight pitting, and some encrustation.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass head pendant
- Period: Classical
- Date: 5th century BCE
- Culture: Phoenician or Carthaginian
- Medium: Glass; rod-formed, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: 1 7/16 × 7/8 × 3/4 in. (3.6 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.150
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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ca. 450–300 BCE
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mid-5th–4th century BCE
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