Pendant (1069–715 BCE): Art, History and Details

Pendant (1069–715 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The rich gold and beautiful turquoise of this pendant make this piece of jewelry a visual delight. At the lower half one notices the fine braiding detail. The extravagant materials suggest it was made for a wealthy individual.

Object facts

• Title: Pendant
• Date: 1069–715 BCE
• Culture: Egypt, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
• Type: Jewelry
• Technique: gold and turquoise
• Dimensions: Overall: 5.1 x 2.3 cm (2 x 7/8 in.)
• Collection: Egypt - Third Intermediate
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1989.39

A detail from the museum

Turquoise is pretty but it was also thought to bring good luck.

Collection credit

Gift of Vivian Merrin

Further reading listed by the museum

• E. H. T. “The Year in Review: Selections 1989.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (February 1990): 38–78.
• Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.