1. Pendant: Female Holding a Child (Kourotrophos) Provenance –1977, Gordon McLendon (Dallas, TX), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1977. Condition The pendant is intact and in good condition. There is a long, curved fissure in the lower right section of the larger figure’s heavy cloak, extending to the base. There are numerous minute chips on the child’s head and on the adult’s nose, chin, and left side of the neck, and along the cloak’s left shoulder. There is an old chip on the tip of the hat. A pattern of minute cracking extends over the surface of the entire piece. There are inclusions at the hem on the right side, at the right elbow, at the top of the child’s head, and scattered throughout the adult’s body. The pendant’s patina varies from yellow-ocher to brown. In ambient light, the amber is reddish brown, and in transmitted light, translucent and ruby-red. Description The two figures form a compact composition. The physiognomy, pose, gestures, dress, and relative scale of the figures suggest that the larger figure is a woman and the smaller figure is a child. The woman wears a long, heavy cloak and a conical hat and is shod in close-fitting boots. The raised area at the collarbone suggests the presence of a close-fitting undergarment. Although there Accession 77.AO.84 is no sign of the undergarment’s hems or selvage edges, it Number is probably a long, close-fitting, unbelted chiton. Bunched Culture Etruscan cloth at the top of the cloak forms a kind of collar at the Date 600–550 B.C. back of the neck and around the shoulders. Engraved vertical lines extend from the lower edge of the sleeve Dimensions Height: 130 mm; width: 45 mm; depth: 18 mm; slits to the hem. On the left side, the cloak hem falls to the Diameter of suspension holes: 2.5 mm; Weight: ankles, just above the small feet, and on the right, to 55.2 g ground level. The two front edges of the cloak join below Subjects Amulets; Artemis; Birds; Etruscan culture; the chest, at the woman’s solar plexus. Her open right Funerary use of amber (also Burial); Ionia, hand is placed at this junction. Her somewhat bulbous Greece (also Ionian, Greek); Kourotrophos conical hat stands high off her head. The hat’s rim is rounded and protruding; it is engraved with short diagonal striations, creating a design resembling cable molding. On the proper left side of the hat, a graved line, interpreted here as a seam, runs from the apex to the rim. 94