id: 153417 accession number: 1987.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.1 updated: 2020-11-04 21:28:07.275000 Pendant, c. 700 BC. Sudan, Napatan; lion's head component, Egypt, probably New Kingdom, Late Period, Dynasty 25. Amethyst and gold; overall: 3.5 x 2.9 x 2.7 cm (1 3/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1987.1 title: Pendant title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 700 BC creation date earliest: 750 creation date latest: 650 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Sudan, Napatan; lion's head component, Egypt, probably New Kingdom, Late Period, Dynasty 25 technique: amethyst and gold department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - New Kingdom type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 3.5 x 2.9 x 2.7 cm (1 3/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1987 opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 24 February-17 April 1988, The Year in Review for 1987, cat.: CMA Bulletin 75, no. 2 (February 1988), no. 6 --- PROVENANCE Purchased from Galerie Nefer, Zurich; Nefer 5 [1987], no. 50, color date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This pendant consists of two parts: a superbly carved lion’s head in amethyst that has been set into a D-shaped gold base consisting of a platform surrounded by eight seated baboons. The lion’s head is an heirloom from the New Kingdom, most likely a gaming piece that had been adapted in the Napatan period to serve as an pendant amulet. This procedure was fairly common in antiquity as a means of recycling precious stones. The importance of leonine deities in Nubian religion was obviously the motivating force behind the creation of this spectacular ornament. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 444 url: Lacovara, Peter, Yvonne J. Markowitz and Sue D'Auria. Nubian Gold: Ancient Jewelry from Sudan and Egypt. Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. page number: Mentioned: p. 148; Reproduced; p. 149, fig. 125a-b url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.1/1987.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.1/1987.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.1/1987.1_full.tif