22. Pendant: Female Head tip of the nose is missing. On the reverse, the amber’s surface-layer flaking is particularly severe. A yellow- ocher crust covers most of the surface. Areas with crust losses reveal a more compact and less altered amber beneath, and under transmitted light, additional subsurface cracking is visible. The pendant is opaque and yellow-brown in color in ambient light. Under transmitted illumination, it is translucent and dark red-brown. There are no visible inclusions. Description The original amber nodule seems to have determined the form of the pendant. The obverse is more convex, the highest point at the bridge of the nose. The reverse is plain and flat. The asymmetrical, triangle-shaped face tapers from a wide brow to a small, pointed chin. The hair and headdress are wide at the base but narrow at the chin. The holes for suspension are located in the top of the headdress on obverse and reverse. When hung, the head exposes its right profile. The brow is flat above the enormous bulbous eyes. Each eyelid is rendered with two filletlike rims that are the same width both above and below the eyes. They meet at both inner and outer canthi. The eyeballs are on the same plane as the eyelids and bulge as in nature. The glabella is wide. Despite the losses to the nose, its form can be discerned as being short and Accession 83.AO.202.18 narrow. The upper lip area is also short, and the mouth is Number small. The lips are rendered as two bars, the upper one Culture Italic set off from the nose by a short groove. Two short vertical grooves, which run from the wings of the nose to the chin Date 480–450 B.C. line, demarcate the mouth angle furrows. A slight ridge Dimensions Height: 30 mm; width: 21 mm; depth: 9 mm; sets off the thick bangs from the brow. The bangs Weight: 4.3 g continue from the obverse onto the narrow sides; the pattern of the hair is indicated by fine diagonal grooves fanning out from the center. There are neither ears nor Provenance neck indicated on this figure. Atop the head is a headdress separated from the hair by a slight ridge. This headdress –1983, Antike Kunst Palladion (Basel, Switzerland); 1983, is made up of four rounded horizontal fillets. Vasek Polak, 1914–97 (Hermosa Beach, CA), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983. Discussion Condition This pendant has many features in common with 83.AO.202.4 (cat. no. 18), 83.AO.202.5 (cat. no. 19), The pendant is intact but in poor condition. The surface is 83.AO.202.6 (cat. no. 20), and 83.AO.202.12 (cat. no. 21). For friable and has suffered many small chips and losses. The 188