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Translucent cobalt blue.
Solid, vertical pendant, with mold marks running up sides and top of head and up side of loop; on top of head, a small vertical suspension loop; flat back.
Head of a bull, facing front, with projecting horns and ears, large eyes in relief, prominent nose and protruding nostrils; on forehead, a circular, rosette-like decoration.
Intact; very little weathering.
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Title: Glass pendant in the form of a bull’s head
Period: Late Hellenistic
Date: late 2nd–1st century BCE
Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
Medium: Glass; cast in a two-part mold
Dimensions: H.: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.458
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