23. Pendant: Winged Female Head Condition The surface is stable, firm, and clean, but it is worn, especially on the front of the face. There is a large fracture loss on the reverse at the top; large losses behind the left ear, above the right ear, and at the top front of the head around the cracked suspension hole; and small chips under the right eye and below the jaw. Fissures run downward along the right side of the nose to the chin as well as along the right temple. There are cracks on the face, beneath the chin on the left side, on the temple, and running from the crown to the right ear. There are traces of yellowish degradation residue in the cracks and grooves. The surface is slightly glossy, suggesting an applied consolidant coating. The amber is translucent and dark red-brown in ambient light. Under transmitted light, the pendant is transparent and red. In the large fissure extending from the top, near the eye, to the chin is an inclusion. Description 77.AO.81.5 represents the head and neck of a female figure. On the back of the head is a wing. The pendant is carved fully in the round. The eyes are large and lozenge- shaped, with the proximal corners nearly joined over the nose. The eyes curve around from the front to the side planes. The lids are indicated by parallel grooves, roughly Accession 77.AO.81.5 carved and relatively angular. What remains of the nose Number suggests that it was a flattish triangular bar. The mouth is small and turned up slightly, as if in a smile. The lips are Culture Italic rendered as curved bars. The nasolabial furrow continues Date 500–480 B.C. to the jawline, giving the face a jowly look. The ears are small, flat, semicircular nubs. They are located high on Dimensions Height: 42 mm; width: 23.5 mm; depth: 32 mm; the head and overlap the edge of the headdress. The chin Diameter of suspension hole: 2 mm; Weight: is small and the under-chin area fleshy. The neck is set off 11.9 g from the face and from the hair by two deep grooves. Subjects Magic The figure wears a conical hat with a high rounded Provenance crown. It is cloth-wrapped. None of her hair is showing in the front. However, at the back of the neck, a section –1977, Gordon McLendon (Dallas, TX), donated to the J. carved with finely spaced engraved lines must represent a Paul Getty Museum, 1977. long tress. The secondary feathers of the wing on the back of the head are indicated with upward-directional engraved lines. 190