Catalogue entry no. 124 by Max Loehr:
124 Pendant with Demon Figure
Bone-colored stone with dark gray markings. The top half represents a vaguely anthropomorphic figure in low relief. Its nonhuman face is heart-shaped, with raised, oval eyes, a muzzle, and two _C_-curl horns. Beneath this is a triangle formed by the arms, which are rendered with little regard to anatomy; the rudimentary hands are separated from the arms by striated cuffs. Engraved on the back, on at each side, are two legs with paws. Whether these legs belong with the ovals (defined by raised lines) on the front is unclear; for these ovals enclose longitudinally set eyes which form part of an animal mask, characterized by a curled snout and a thin mouth incised across the lower edge, which fills the slightly recessed lower half of the object. A perforation drilled from the top and bottom runs through the entire length; close to this, two holes drilled from the top and back meet at right angles to form a secondary perforation, while a similar perforation at the lower edge has been broken open. Shang or Western Chou.
