Glass head pendant
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass head pendant
- Period: Archaic or Classical
- Date: 6th–5th century BCE
- Culture: Phoenician
- Medium: Glass; rod-formed and applied
- Dimensions: Other: 1 1/8 x 3/4 x 5/8 in. (2.9 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.736
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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