Ornament with Seated Figure

ca. 700 BCE (Late Geometric)

1.5 cm 12.8 cm 1.5 cm

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The pendant with a seated figure lifting his hands to his mouth is one of the earliest and finest of such ornaments, which have been found in graves at the waists of skeletons, indicating that they were worn suspended from a belt.

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26231
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Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1968, by purchase.
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en
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7
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