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Pendant: Ram's Head

Date

525–480 B.C.

Medium

Amber

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

The pendant is fashioned in the shape of a ram's head, with a curly fleece and large curved horns with incised ridges. At the base the edge is recessed, likely for insertion into a now missing metal mount. A pair of perforations contain the remains of a metal (silver?) wire or pins. This is one of three similar pendants (including [76.AO.83](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/7391/unknown-maker-pendant-ram's-head-etruscan-525-480-bc/) and [77.AO.81.7](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/7921/unknown-maker-pendant-ram's-head-etruscan-525-480-bc)) that may have belonged to a single original, based on similarities of style, technique, and condition.

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