Glass double head pendant

Phoenician

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Semi-opaque pale turquoise blue, with additions in opaque white and yellow, and translucent cobalt blue; pale turquoise blue suspension loop.
Cylindrical with rod hole at bottom; almost flat top; applied suspension loop on top of head.
Two faces, back to back; upper half of face in white, with blue and white stratified eyes, white ears flanked above and below with yellow earrings, and white nose; beard in blue with small mouth in yellow.
Broken across one face with most of beard missing; some dulling, pitting, and faint weathering, with encrustation inside rod hole.

Pale green double bearded mask with colored decoration, and handle at top.

Glass double head pendant, Glass, Phoenician

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