A LARGE PHOENICIAN OR CARTHAGINAN ROD-FORMED GLASS PENDANT IN THE FORM OF THE HEAD OF A BEARDED MAN

5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

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A LARGE PHOENICIAN OR CARTHAGINAN ROD-FORMED GLASS PENDANT IN THE FORM OF THE HEAD OF A BEARDED MAN
5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
With applied detail, dark blue ringlets and corkscrew curled beard, the yellow face with opaque white details and applied white suspension loop, iridescence on the cheeks, mounted
2.1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Allegedly from "Fouilles du Réverend Père Delattre de la nécrople de Bordj Djedid à Carthage", according to ink inscribed label.

Lot Essay

A similar mask has been found in a Gaulish cemetery at Saint-Sulpice, dated to circa 400 B.C., and now in the Musée Cantonal d'Archéologie et d'Histoire Lausanne; for similar also cf. In Pursuit of the Absolute: Art of the Ancient World from the George Ortiz Collection, London, 1994, no. 159; and S. Moscati (ed.), The Phoenicians, Milan, 1988, pls. on pp. 480-1.

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