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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Ram's Head Pendant
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Ram's Head Pendant

Manufacturer Unknown
CulturePhoenician | Eastern Mediterranean
Date3rd century B.C.
MediumCore-formed glass
DimensionsOverall: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
Thickness: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.6745
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-1, Case 1
DescriptionRam's head pendant. Core-formed dark blue opaque glass. Round hollow center for the rest of the piece. With an attached blue and white eye and an attached turquoise cone. Head-shaped pendant.

Label TextEastern Mediterranean, probably Syro-Palestinian Coast Ram's Head Pendant, 6th-3rd centuries B.C. Rod-formed glass with hot applications Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.6745 Published ReferencesToledo Museum News, _Ancient Glass_, 11/3/78, pg. 72. _Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum_, 1978, pp. 21-22. Goldstein, _Pre-Roman & Early Roman Glass_, pg. 110, #221, pp. 38-39, fig. 12.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
199 - 1 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
2nd - mid 1st century B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
2nd century B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
5th century BC
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
499-450 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
2nd Century BC-1st Century BC
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
599-400 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
2nd century B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
2nd century B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
4TH CENTURY BC - 3rd CENTURY BC
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
Mid 4th - early 3rd century B.C.