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Glass pendant

Sales price $125.00
Ancient monochrome glass pendant, aryballos- shaped, 4 century BCAncient monochrome glass pendant 139MA
Ancient monochrome glass pendant, aryballos- shaped, 4 century BCAncient monochrome glass pendant, aryballos- shaped, 1 century BC
Description

139MA
Aryballos pendant
Eastern Mediterranean
Date: 2-1 century BC
Monochrome glass

Aryballos- shaped with globular body and outward going rim. Translucent yellowish glass.
Intact, good condition, iridescent glass. Slightly deformed during manufacture.
Height 10 mm, diameter 8 mm

For published examples see:
- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 152: #197-40
- D.Nenna, Exploration archeologique de Delos, 32: Les verres, Paris, Athenes, EFA, De Boccard, 1999, pl.52 # E76-79
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 163 #290-291
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 33: 68.
- Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Mecklenburg Collection # 40-77-40-11775