A Phoenician Yellow Glass Face Pendant, ca. 3rd - 1st century BCE Sculpture - Terracotta of natural buff terracotta

of natural buff terracotta

and male genitalia

While umbos also featured different effigies

two amulets are almost always found together -- the carpenter's set square

Design elements represent leaf

A Phoenician Yellow Glass Face Pendant, ca. 3rd - 1st century BCE Sculpture - Terracotta of natural buff terracottaMold formed, the tiny glass pendant features a face with protruding nose and wide mouth. Similar examples also feature twisted headbands with hair curls over each ear. Such pendants were made across the Levant. Note: From the Israeli Museum: small head pendants, some possible late Hellenistic date (3rd C BCE). They differ not only stylistically but also technically from the others (listed), as the faces were mold formed with subsequent applied colored