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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.1.30
Title
Pendant
Classification
Jewelry
Work Type
pendant
Date
9th-7th Century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe
Period
Iron Age
Culture
Italic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/178337

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Copper alloy
Technique
Cast, lost-wax process
Dimensions
2.5 x 1.2 cm (1 x 1/2 in.)
Technical Details

Technical Observations: The patina is light grayish green with spots of brown burial accretion. It is not clear if two 4-mm light-colored accretions on this pendant are from burial or are modern. It is in stable condition. The pendant is a solid cast, probably from a model made directly in the wax.


Henry Lie (submitted 2012)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (before 1970-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.1.30
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums
This bronze pendant is intact. There is a suspension loop at top of the solid, piriform pendant, which has a round terminal knob (1).

NOTES:

1. Compare pendants in A.-M. Adam, Bronzes étrusques et italiques (Paris, 1984) 133, no. 167; and F. Jurgeit, Die etruskischen und italischen Bronzen sowie Gegenstände aus Eisen, Blei, und Leder im Badischen Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Terra Italia 5 (Pisa, 1999) 643-44, nos. 1137-39, pl. 290.


Lisa M. Anderson

Publication History

  • John Crawford, Sidney Goldstein, George M. A. Hanfmann, John Kroll, Judith Lerner, Miranda Marvin, Charlotte Moore, and Duane Roller, Objects of Ancient Daily Life. A Catalogue of the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Belonging to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, ed. Jane Waldbaum, Department of the Classics (unpublished manuscript, 1970), M42, p. 167 [J. S. Crawford]

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

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Verification Level

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