Cleveland Museum of Art

Daedalic Pendant with Potnia Theron (Mistress of Animals)

Date

650–600 BCE

Medium

gold and glass

Culture

Eastern Greece, Rhodian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This pendant shows the goddess Potnia Theron, the “mistress of the animals,” a deity sometimes associated with the Greek goddess Artemis. The goddess stands in a frontal pose with upswept wings, one curving above each shoulder. Each of her fists closes around the leash of a rearing feline. This piece is one of two nearly identical pendants in the collection (1999.88 and 2001.157) that were probably originally from the same necklace. The small loops at the bottom of the pendants probably held chains attached to pomegranate-shaped beads.

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