12. The head-pendant from Villalfonsina, pierced through the top of 13. The touching, rubbing, and kissing of faces in prayer, adoration, the hair, dangles from the pin of the fibula: Negroni Catacchio propitiation, warding away danger or evil, and communication 1975, pp. 314–15; R. Papi, “Materiali archeologici da Villalfonsina of other kinds are the subject of an enormous body of literature. (Chieti),” ArchCl 31 (1979): 83–85, 91. The head-pendants from See the introduction, particularly n. 176. Tomb 9 (satyr) and Tomb 10 (female) from the Rutigliano- 14. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.23–24: amber “is commonly Purgatorio Necropolis are discussed in the introduction. used in connection with the mourning attending the death of the young.” 176 HUMAN HEADS