Glass head pendant
Translucent pale yellow brown, with additions in opaque yellow, translucent pale yellow brown and blue.
Cylindrical with large rod hole at bottom; horizontal rounded edge at back, U-shaped large front projecting downwards; applied suspension loop on top of head.
Applied row of large curls across forehead in brown, extending back across top of head; upper half of face in yellow, with long blue eyebrows meeting across bridge of nose, blue and yellow stratified eyes, and long slender applied nose; mouth concealed by beard of long radiating curls; trails to sides of head for ears.
Intact, but crack in back of head and part of two curls on forehead missing; dulling, pitting, creamy enamel-like weathering, and some iridescence.
Bearded.
Cylindrical with large rod hole at bottom; horizontal rounded edge at back, U-shaped large front projecting downwards; applied suspension loop on top of head.
Applied row of large curls across forehead in brown, extending back across top of head; upper half of face in yellow, with long blue eyebrows meeting across bridge of nose, blue and yellow stratified eyes, and long slender applied nose; mouth concealed by beard of long radiating curls; trails to sides of head for ears.
Intact, but crack in back of head and part of two curls on forehead missing; dulling, pitting, creamy enamel-like weathering, and some iridescence.
Bearded.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass head pendant
- Period: Classical
- Date: ca. 450–300 BCE
- Culture: Phoenician or Carthaginian
- Medium: Glass; rod-formed, tooled, and trailed
- Dimensions: 2 1/8 × 1 3/8 × 7/8 in. (5.4 × 3.5 × 2.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
- Object Number: 06.1126
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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