A CARTHAGINIAN GOLD PENDANT

CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.

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A CARTHAGINIAN GOLD PENDANT
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.
Shrine-shaped, in Egyptianizing style, with uraei flanking a granulated "bottle idol" upon an altar with a cavetto cornice, a large granule in the center of the cornice, bordered with two rows of granulation framing plain wire, surmounted by a ribbed suspension loop
1 3/16 in. (3 cm.) long

来源

French Collection, 1985.

拍品专文

For two nearly identical pendants see pp. 374 and 376 in Moscati, et al., The Phoenicians.

The origin of the "bottle idol" is unclear, but is perhaps based on cremation urns used in the tophet, or child burial ground.