7. Pendant: Ship with Figures deterioration pittings) throughout the piece, mostly on the port side. While in the donor’s collection, the piece was lightly cleaned and the two broken sections of the bow reattached. Description The pendant is worked fully in the round. The ship has a deeply rounded hull and a heavy keel. At one end, identified here as the stern, is a curved, knoblike protrusion that must be the aphlaston, or sternpost, which is shaped like a schematic bird-head device. In front of the aphlaston is a raised structure, probably the stern castle, articulated on its sides by five parallel vertical Accession 76.AO.76 indentations, with a division down the center on the top, Number and uneven protrusions (the sheet and cordage?). At the Culture Etruscan bow, in front of the figures, is an undifferentiated section Date 600–575 B.C. of amber and, above it, a rectangular form that protrudes over the bow. This forward structure, a bow screen, or Dimensions Length: 120 mm; width: 35 mm; depth: 10 possibly a flexible upper deck, is described by two narrow mm; Weight: 66 g horizontal fillets within which are short vertical incisions; Subjects Funerary use of amber (also Burial); Jewelry; on its top, it is marked off with transverse parallel lines. Magic Seven figures are aboard ship. On each side are three figures, represented by their frontal heads and necks. On Provenance each side is carved the profile of a long-haired, bearded man (head, neck, and a small section of the torso are –1976, Gordon McLendon (Dallas, TX), donated to the J. represented); in front of him is a tied sack or other cargo. Paul Getty Museum, 1976. This figure sits in front of the stern castle and looks forward. Condition The six outward-facing figures are nearly identical. They There is a break at the bow, a large chip in this break, a have similarly shaped oval faces, centrally parted caplike break at the bow set of suspension holes, and a number of hair, and cursorily modeled features. Their eyes are small chips on the top side. A section of the keel is broken almond-shaped, blank, and bulging; their noses are off, and there is an old fracture loss on the starboard side triangular; and their mouths are formed as parallel bars. just above the keel. There are large fissures on the top, The bearded figure sits taller in the ship and is slightly port, and starboard sides near the stern. The crazing is larger in scale than the frontal figures. His almond- uniform overall. shaped eyes are set high in his face. He has a sharp, triangle-shaped nose, a prominent pointed beard, and The object is dark reddish brown in ambient light and long hair falling over his ears to the back hairline. translucent and dark reddish orange in transmitted light. There are a number of inclusions (or, possibly, The pendant preserves evidence of its original form and its preparation before the figuration. Portside is a smoothed depression, and on the bottom is a smoothed 130