Pendant amulet
This small pendant is made from pale blue glass with a suspension hole at the top. It is badly damaged as the surface has decayed to form an iridescent surface and it is heavily pitted. The shape is unusual and may represent a bronze bell clapper. Many people in ancient Greece believed the sound of bells frightened off evil spirits, so this amulet may have had the same symbolic use.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/369
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, LAD
- Material
- glass
- Common Name
- pendant amulet
- Simple Name
- amulet
- Period Classification
- Classical - 500-336 BC; Hellenistic - 336-146 BC
