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Object NamePendant with Head of Man

Made FromGlass

Date400-300 BCE

Techniquecore-formed with trailed and tooled decoration

SizeOverall L: 4.5 cm, D: 2.4 cm

Accession Number53.1.2

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

possibly Eastern Mediterranean; possibly Carthage

Physical DescriptionPendant with Head of Man. Opaque streaky medium-blue glass, pitted, filled with impurities, some weathering striations, applied opaque yellow and opaque white glass with translucent deep yellow-green (appearing black) glass; core-formed with trailed and tooled decoration. Large pendant bead in the shape of a bearded head formed over a grainy red-orange core with an irregular suspension loop on top, face modeled in opaque yellow glass, eyes lined with dark yellow-green, eyebrows and curls across top of head and vertically ribbed beard of same glass, lips in opaque yellow applied over beard, dot of opaque white between eyebrows also below ears as jewelry.
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