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Pendant: Foreparts of a Recumbent Boar

Date

525–480 B.C.

Medium

Amber

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

A pendant is carved fully in the round in the shape of the head, forelegs, and upper trunk of a wild boar. The front legs are drawn up under the head in a recumbent pose, the ears lie flat, and along the back are vertical incised bristles of a mane. Although uncommon as a motif for jewelry, the boar occurs on several pendants and on decorative fibula bows.

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