pendant
- Museum number
- 136813
- Description
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Gold pendant; made with a grooved cotton-reel at the top, with thicker wire at each end attached to a square cloison holding loop-in-loop gold strands ending in a tight cluster of seventeen hollow ovoid acorn-like buds (each made in two punched halves), attached with shallow hollow drum-shaped beads with short swollen bodies and beaded collars at the top and bottom.
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.57 centimetres
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Weight: 9.30 grammes
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Thickness: 1.70 centimetres (max)
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Width: 0.80 centimetres (cloison)
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Width: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Although previously identified as an earring, it appears to be too heavy for this function and the fitting at the top suggests that it had originally been strung as a pendant.
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Bowers Catalogue entry:
Pendant
Gold
Possibly from the Wadi Bayhan
Height 2.5 cm, width 2 cm, thickness 1.7 cm, cloison width 0.8 cm; 9.3 g weight
ANE 1977-2-26,15 = 136813
Purchased from Nicholas Wright; a previous owner is said to have been the Emir of Bayhan
This was made with a grooved cotton-reel at the top, with thicker wire at each end attached to a square cloison holding loop-in-loop gold strands ending in a tight cluster of seventeen hollow ovoid acorn-like buds (each made in two halves), attached with shallow hollow drum-shaped beads with short swollen bodies and beaded collars at the top and bottom. Although previously identified as an earring, it appears to be too heavy for this function and the fitting at the top suggests that it had originally been strung as a pendant.
- Location
- On display (G53/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007- 11 Jun-, BM, G53/South Arabia/1
2004-2005 17 Oct-13 Mar, California, Bowers Museum, 'Queen of Sheba: Legend and Reality'
2002 5 Jun-13 Oct, BM, 'Queen of Sheba: Treasures from ancient Yemen' first exhibition of.
- Condition
- Fair.
- Acquisition date
- 1977
- Acquisition notes
- Reputedly from the collection of the Sheikh of Baihan.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 136813
- Registration number
- 1977,0226.15
