A Phoenician or Carthaginian glass male head pendant
Circa 3rd-1st Century B.C.
The opaque yellow head with applied cobalt blue eyes and curled locks above the ears, wearing yellow earrings and a twisted blue and yellow head band, a blue attachment loop above, 0.9cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 May 1987, lot 198.
Faces from the Ancient World a European Private Collection; Christie's, London, 20 April 2005, lot 38.
For the type, see a pendant formerly in the Cesnola Collection and now at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 74.51.4029; this pendant is suspended from a gold earring, with the attachment loop described as a large curl of hair.