Glass head pendant

Phoenician

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Translucent blue green, with additions in opaque white and yellow and dark blue.
Cylindrical with large rod hole at bottom; horizontal rounded edge at back, two-pronged front projecting downwards; applied suspension loop on top of head.
Face in yellow applied as a large pad, with added nose in yellow, layered eyes in blue and white, eyebrows in blue, ears in yellow, pendant earrings in white and mouth in yellow; two vertical tooled grooves mark beard.
Suspension loop, most of nose, and proper right earring missing; some pitting and dulling, with enamel-like creamy weathering on most of blue green body of pendant.

Glass head pendant, Glass, Phoenician

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