Glass head pendant

Phoenician

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent deep colbalt blue, with suspension ring in same color and applied decoration in opaque yellow and white.
Hollow cylindrical shape, with rounded edges, closed at top and drawn down at front to form face; suspension ring applied to top with loop aligned front to back.
Yellow face with pointed, indented chin, surrounded by blue hair, sideburns, and beard around chin; vestiges of blue, overlaid eyebrows; large, round eyes in white outlined in blue with projecting blue pupils; open mouth with white lips; two yellow blobs applied to sides of face below eyes.
Broken and repaired, most of suspension ring missing, all of spiral ringlets of hair across the forehead, and one of the yellow blobs on the proper left side of the face; dulling and pitting.

This belongs to a group of head pendants with oriental features that appears to have been made in Phoenicia and Cyprus, as well as at Carthage in North Africa.

Glass head pendant, Glass, Phoenician

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