On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Pendant with birds and goats in a Tree of Life,
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
Phoenician
Phoenician Iron Age, ca. 1200–500 BCE
1998-10
Information
Title
Pendant with birds and goats in a Tree of Life
Dates
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
Medium
Gold
Dimensions
8.1 x 4.8 cm (3 3/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
h. without chains: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Emily Townsend Vermeule, honorary degree holder of the Class of 1989, and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in memory of Francis F. Adams Comstock, Class of 1919.
Object Number
1998-10
Place Made
Levant (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, and adjacent areas)
Place Depicted
Spain
Place Excavated
Europe, Spain
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Purchased by the Museum from Robert E. Hecht Jr. in 1998
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1998," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 58, no. 1/2 (1999): p. 86-123., p. 114; p. 117 (illus.)
- Judith Price, Masterpieces of ancient jewelry: exquisite objects from the cradle of civilization, (Philadelphia, PA: Running, 2008)., p. 69-70 (illus.)
- Bianca Maria Zonta, "Ancient jewellery of the Middle East", Minerva: The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology vol. 19, no. 6 (Nov-Dec, 2008)., p. 36; fig. 8. (illus.)
