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A GREEK GOLD MAENAD HEAD PENDANT
A GREEK GOLD MAENAD HEAD PENDANT
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This lot is offered without reserve. PROPERTY FROM A MIDWESTERN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GREEK GOLD MAENAD HEAD PENDANT

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D.

Details
A GREEK GOLD MAENAD HEAD PENDANT
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D.
¾ in. (1.9 cm.) long
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 8 June 1994, lot 245.
Private Collection, U.S., acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.
Special notice
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Lot Essay


This pendant depicts the head of a maenad wearing a wreath of ivy and berries in her hair and originally served as the terminal from an earring. For complete maenad head earrings see nos. 1684-1707 in Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman in the Departments of the Antiquities, British Museum.

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