Pendant in the Shape of a Ram’s Head

Object Name: 
Pendant in the Shape of a Ram’s Head

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Object Name: 
Pendant in the Shape of a Ram’s Head
Place Made: 
possibly Tunisia, Carthage
possibly Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number: 
66.1.212
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.9 cm, W: 3.3 cm, L: 5.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 400-300 BCE
Primary Description: 
Pendant in the Shape of a Ram’s Head. Opaque white glass, bubbly with some surface pitting and striations, translucent deep blue and opaque yellow glass; rod-formed with trailed and tooled decoration. Large pendant in the shape of a ram's head, heavy trails of deep blue curled from the top to the bottom of the head indicating horns with ears tooled and applied over these, between the two a large suspension loop is applied at the back of the head also in deep blue, the large eyes are outlined in yellow with large blue centers, the nose is highlighted in yellow.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection
Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source
1965
to
1966
Category: 
Origins of Glassmaking
Jewelry
Color: 
white
deep blue
yellow
Technique: 
trailing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

A Touch of Glass
Venue(s)
Explorers Hall, National Geographic Society 1995-02-15 through 1995-09-15

Publications (4)

Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019) illustrated, pp. 32-33, 35;
The History of Beads: from 30,000 B.C. to the present (1998) illustrated, p. 19; BIB# 69265
Les pendentifs en verre sur noyau des pays de la méditerranée antique (1982) p. 136 (no. 7); BIB# 23059
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, pp. 112-113, #226, pl. 13; BIB# 29547