This catalogue was first published in 2012 at http: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data //museumcatalogues.getty.edu/amber. The present online version Names: Causey, Faya, author. | Maish, Jeffrey, contributor. | was migrated in 2019 to https://www.getty.edu/publications Khanjian, Herant, contributor. | Schilling, Michael (Michael Roy), /ambers; it features zoomable high-resolution photography; free contributor. | J. Paul Getty Museum, issuing body. PDF, EPUB, and MOBI downloads; and JPG downloads of the Title: Ancient carved ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum / Faya catalogue images. Causey ; with technical analysis by Jeff Maish, Herant Khanjian, © 2012, 2019 J. Paul Getty Trust and Michael Schilling. Description: Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “This catalogue provides a general introduction to amber in the ancient world Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a followed by detailed catalogue entries for fifty-six Etruscan, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the J. Paul Getty Museum. copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4 The volume concludes with technical notes about scientific .0/. Figures 3, 9–17, 22–24, 28, 32, 33, 36, 38, 40, 51, and 54 are investigations of these objects and Baltic amber”—Provided by reproduced with the permission of the rights holders publisher. acknowledged in captions and are expressly excluded from the CC Identifiers: LCCN 2019016671 (print) | LCCN 2019981057 (ebook) | BY license covering the rest of this publication. These images may ISBN 9781606066348 (paperback) | ISBN 9781606066355 (epub) not be reproduced, copied, transmitted, or manipulated without | ISBN 9781606060513 (ebook other) consent from the owners, who reserve all rights. Subjects: LCSH: J. Paul Getty Museum—Catalogs. | Amber art objects—Catalogs. | Art objects, Ancient—Catalogs. | Art First edition 2012 objects, Etruscan—Catalogs. | Art objects—California—Los Paperback and ebook editions 2019 Angeles—Catalogs. | LCGFT: Collection catalogs. https://www.github.com/gettypubs/ambers Classification: LCC NK6000 .J3 2019 (print) | LCC NK6000 (ebook) | DDC 709.0109794/94—dc23 Published by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019016671 Getty Publications LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019981057 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 500 Los Angeles, California 90040-1682 Front cover: Pendant: Divinity Holding Hares (detail, 77.AO.82, cat. www.getty.edu/publications no. 4). First edition: Every effort has been made to contact the owners and Marina Belozerskaya and Ruth Evans Lane, Project Editors photographers of objects reproduced here whose names do not Brenda Podemski and Roger Howard,Software Architects appear in the captions. Anyone having further information Elizabeth Zozom and Elizabeth Kahn, Production concerning copyright holders is asked to contact Getty Publications Kurt Hauser, Cover Design so this information can be included in future printings. 2019 editions: URLs cited throughout this catalogue were accessed prior to first Zoe Goldman,Project Editor publication in 2012; during preparation of the present editions in Greg Albers, Digital Manager 2019, some electronic content was found to be no longer available. Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja, Digital Assistant Where URLs are no longer valid, the author’s original citations have Suzanne Watson,Production been retained, but hyperlinks have been disabled in the online and ebook editions. Distributed in the United States and Canada by the University of Chicago Press Distributed outside the United States and Canada by Yale University Press, London