45. Pendant: Ram’s Head cavity is simplified, the salient features indicated. The plastic, almond-shaped eyes are defined by surrounding incised grooves. The area below the eye is flat and the arch raised. A short, shallow groove extends downward from the inner corner of each eye toward a deeply incised naris. The division between the face and the fleece is sharp, with the line of the wool sweeping in a curve behind the eyes. The upper edge of the fleece is cut away sharply over each ear, resulting in a ledgelike ridge. Each horn is encircled with fourteen or sixteen closely spaced engraved ridges that extend from the base of the horn to a point just past the intersection with the tip of the ear. The remainder of the horn is smooth. The horns have sharp ends and flare outward. The collar area is narrower in Accession 77.AO.81.15 circumference than the neck; it is an inverted flute or a Number flute with narrow fillets on either side. Culture Italic A deep groove, 1.5 mm wide, begins at the upper edge of Date 500–400 B.C. the back and extends 8 mm into the area between the horns, probably the result of removing a fault in the Dimensions Length: 36 mm; width: 19 mm; depth: 15 mm; material. Two other grooves, 8 and 10 mm long, also likely Weight: 5.8 g resulting from fault removal, are located diagonally Subjects Ram across the underside of the neck. Two 1.5 mm perforations were drilled 4 mm apart in the center of the Provenance back. The perforations are obstructed with dirt. It is possible that a filament was threaded through the holes. –1977, Gordon McLendon (Dallas, TX), donated to the J. The pendant would have hung head downward. Paul Getty Museum, 1977. Discussion Condition This head and the next four—77.AO.81.16 (cat. no. 46), The pendant is intact except for a chip on the proper right 77.AO.81.17 (cat. no. 47), 77.AO.81.18 (cat. no. 48), and edge of the pendant back and minute chips at the tip of 77.AO.81.19 (cat. no. 49)—look to be by the same hand. each horn. The surface shows crazing. The pendant has a 77.AO.81.16 has a similar diamond-shaped poll and reddish brown patina, with some yellow mottling at the similar widely spaced ridges on the horns. The eyes are forehead, at the left naris, and under the chin. The plastically modeled, which is especially apparent when pendant may have been consolidated with amber oil. It is the pendant is viewed on the dorsal side. The upper edge transparent in ambient light. In transmitted light, the is sharply cut away over each ear, resulting in a ledgelike pendant is bright orange, and fine subsurface cracking is ridge. In profile, the animals show the same visible. No inclusions are evident. morphological features of the lower part of the head: they both have a long, narrow muzzle with a flat or slightly Description concave chin and neck. 77.AO.81.17 is very much like this pair, but it has a different decorative finial. One of the The ram of this pendant has a long and sleek head, the rams’ heads in London (British Museum 82) is especially tapering muzzle tipping down as in nature. The ocular close in form to 77.AO.81.15.1 250