Glass pendant

138MA
Amphora pendant
Eastern Mediterranean
Date: 4 century BC
Monochrome glass

Amphora- shaped with spherical-point bottom and outward going rim. Translucent blue-green glass.
Intact, good condition, iridescent glass.
Height 13 mm, diameter 8 mm

Very popular type across ancient world, both chronologically (7 century BC to 2 century BC) and geographically: from all Mediterranean to Black Sea, Celtic Europe to Persia, often from Phoenician context.

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: #197-7
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 163 #288-289
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 34: 40.
- S. Moscati, The Celts, 1991, p.326