4. Pendant: Divinity Holding Hares Condition The piece is in excellent condition, and its surface is uniformly hard, smooth, and shiny. The amber is crazed overall and has numerous minute cracks and fissures, which are especially noticeable on the figure’s feet and in the head and body of the hare to her left. The broken tip of the left hare’s nose is the only significant loss to the pendant. In ambient light, the piece is dark red-orange and translucent; in transmitted light, the amber is transparent and bright red-orange. There is a large, cloudy inclusion in the upper body of the hare on the figure’s right side, and other inclusions are scattered throughout the piece. Description The pendant is worked from a large piece of amber, rounded on both the obverse and reverse sides. The figure is identified as youthful because of the lack of beard hair and the relative body proportions. Its sex is not evident. The figure wears a short, simple, schematically rendered short chiton, or chitoniskos. There is no indication of the front neckline or the sleeve hems, and no belt. The top edge of the footwear is not indicated, but the smooth, Accession 77.AO.82 close-fitting shape and pointed toe box suggest that they Number are boots. The figure stands in a rigid frontal pose. In each Culture Etruscan arm, the figure grasps the hind feet of a large crouching hare held head downward. The space between the figure’s Date 600–550 B.C. neck and the hares’ bodies is undefined. Dimensions Height: 97 mm; width: 64 mm; depth: 24 mm; The figure’s head is large in proportion to the body; its Diameter of suspension holes: 2.5 mm; Weight: narrow shoulders slope slightly. The broad chest 76 g protrudes in the breast area, but there are no Subjects Artemis; Childbirth; Egypt; Etruscan culture; individualized breasts. The hips are narrow. The back is Hare; Ionia, Greece (also Ionian, Greek); Magic; full through the upper area and concave in the lumbar Potnia Theron region, and the rounded buttock area protrudes. The long, thin arms end in small, rounded hands. Each hand shows Provenance four fingers and the roots of the thumbs. The legs are thick, short, and sturdy, with full thighs and calves, and –1977, Gordon McLendon (Dallas, TX), donated to the J. are contiguous for their full length. No knees are Paul Getty Museum, 1977. indicated. The feet are small. Geometry and pattern infuse the face: it is round, broad, and flat; the curve of the hairline in front is echoed by 112