side by raised fillets. When suspended, the head would talismanically rubbed or kissed) or as an ornament have hung downward, with the top of the head showing. suspended from a branch, animal harness, or Discussion architectural element. Counterparts for 76.AO.80 were found in female graves in The signs of use wear of 76.AO.80 are significant. The controlled excavations, and it is possible that this piece pulling troughs on the upper edges of the perforation came from a similar context. While representations of demonstrate longtime use where gravity or human both ram’s head–wearing women and men are activity has caused the suspension cord to saw the amber. documented in funerary imagery, there is no comparable This is the only animal head in the Getty collection to image of a lion’s-head wearer of either sex. Whatever may demonstrate this use; the other ambers in the collection have been the pre-interment function of the amber, gold, with visible wear by abrasion are female head-pendants. and bronze lions’ heads, their ultimate role was funerary, Unlike on the female head-pendants, however, there is just like the necklaces with lion’s heads hanging from the little corresponding wear on the face. There is no internal branches in the grove of the Etrusco-Ionian Tomb of evidence to suggest the manner of the pendant’s use, Hunting and Fishing (see the “Lions’ Heads” introduction). whether as personal adornment (and whether it was 224 LIONS’ HEADS