The pendant would have hung with the chin recessed, the The Banzi Tomb 164 head-pendants and 77.AO.81.30 brow forward. correspond in general type to Emeline Richardson’s series Discussion of Late Archaic bronze korai. A comparison with her Group 5D, especially with the group’s name piece, Naples, 77.AO.81.30 is generally similar in style and dress to Museo Archeologico Nazionale 5532 (provenance 77.AO.81.25 (cat. no. 26). It is closer, however, especially in unknown), brings out their common features. They look the overall format and in the hairstyle, to two well- to be of the same physiognomic type and are dressed in a 1 similar manner.3 As Richardson establishes, Naples 5532 preserved pendants from Tomb 164 at Banzi. The styling is an old-fashioned work, one that looks back to earlier of the hair at the back of the heads is remarkably similar conceptions of the kore type in Etruria, especially to the in all three works: it is short and curled under, with the Ionian series of the late sixth and early fifth centuries. lower edge forming a soft curve. The horizontal waves are rendered by fine engraved lines. However, there are NOTES differences in the hair treatment. 77.AO.81.30 has straight bangs, while one of the Banzi head-pendants has 1. Melfi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale del Melfese 51436: Bottini horizontal waves at the brow and the other scallops. Both 1990, pp. 61–62, no. 17, fig. 4.17a–b. Related is the pendant from Tomb 164 figures also have a raised fillet at the neck edge, Tomb 55 at Banzi: ibid., p. 60, no. 5, fig. 2.5. For discussion of the perhaps a necklace, perhaps a mark evoking the form of Banzi heads, see ibid., pp. 59–63, nos. 1–2; Bottini 1987, pp. 1–16; the decorative protome—as is characteristic of amber andLosi et al. 1993. Bottini 1990 left open the question of horse’s-head pendants. 77.AO.81.30 does not have such a whether the parallel striations at the back of the heads fillet. represent coifed short hair or a kekryphalos. Angelo Bottini compared the Banzi amber head-pendants 2. Bottini 1990, p. 62. to coin types of Syracuse and Athens of the late sixth and 3. For the Late Archaic bronze korai, see Richardson 1983, pp. early fifth centuries and dated Tomb 164 “to the first 271–332. For Naples 5532, see ibid., pp. 323–25, figs. 770–71. quarter of the fifth century, at the latest.”2 Bottini made a Naples 5532 wears a short necklace and disk earrings. Unlike strong case for a local manufacture of the Tomb 164 head- the amber heads, she wears a low diadem and a veil. See also pendants but at the same time argued for a more careful the discussion of Naples 5532 in the entry for 77.AO.81.25. consideration of the territory and its cultural relations with the larger world. Cat. no. 25 195