Italic Pendant: winged female head
Summary
A head, probably female, appears in profile with five large perforations in a roughly circular pattern.
Classical
Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects. Amber is used in jewelry and has been used as a healing agent in folk medicine. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents. Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions.
Tags
Date
0000
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)