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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.1.31
Title
Jug-Shaped Pendant
Classification
Jewelry
Work Type
pendant
Date
9th-7th Century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe
Period
Iron Age
Culture
Italic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/178336

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Copper alloy
Technique
Cast, lost-wax process
Dimensions
4.05 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Technical Details

Technical Observations: The patina is a mottled green, and the surface was cleaned after excavation. The pendant was lost-wax cast and modeled by hand. The lip of the vessel and its handle are clearly pinched. The opening was formed by pressing a fine round-sectioned rod or stick into the wax.


Francesca G. Bewer (submitted 2012)

Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Small tan label "P1" on back near foot.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Walton Brooks McDaniel, New Jersey (?-1943/46), gift; to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, (1943/46-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Note: Walton Brooks McDaniel gave a portion of his collection to the Department of the Classics in 1943 and the rest in 1946. The Collection is named for his late wife, Alice Corinne McDaniel.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.1.31
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums
This pendant is shaped like a jug (1). The rim of the triangular mouth, which surrounds a cylindrical hole into the interior, is wide. The handle joins the rim and body at the shoulder, forming a suspension loop. The shape of the body is asymmetrical. The vessel has a knob for a foot and would not be able to stand on its own, if it were real. On the side where it joins the handle, the body is smoother and flatter than the rest of object.

While this pendant was probably decorative, it has been suggested that it might have been used as a votive, toy, or weight (2). The type was wide-spread in Europe.

NOTES:

1. Compare a set of similar pendants from the Campana collection, now in the Louvre, inv. no. Br 2290; S. Tassinari, La vaisselle de bronze romaine et provinciale au Musée des Antiquités Nationales (Gallia Suppl. 39, 1975) 62, no. 157, pl. 30 (found at Bavay, presently in the Musée de Cluny, inv. no. Cluny 7779); M. Bolla and G. P. Tabone, Bronzistica figurata preromana e romana del Civico Museo Archeologico “Giovio” di Como (Como, 1996) 182-83, no. A 155; and F. Jurgeit, Die etruskischen und italischen Bronzen sowie Gegenstände aus Eisen, Blei, und Leder im Badischen Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Terra Italia 5 (Pisa, 1999) 638-39, nos. 1123-25, pl. 289.

2. J. Petit, Bronzes Antiques de la Collection Dutuit: Grecs, hellénistiques, romains et de l’Antiquité tardive (Paris, 1980) 180-81, no. 98, consisting of nine small bronze jugs of this general style.


Lisa M. Anderson

Publication History

  • John Crawford, Sidney Goldstein, George M. A. Hanfmann, John Kroll, Judith Lerner, Miranda Marvin, Charlotte Moore, and Duane Roller, Objects of Ancient Daily Life. A Catalogue of the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Belonging to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, ed. Jane Waldbaum, Department of the Classics (unpublished manuscript, 1970), M43, p. 167 [J. S. Crawford]

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

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Verification Level

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