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Pin with Janiform Human Heads
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The top of the pin is a flat dome with a beveled edge, surrounded by a ring. Below the top is a cylindrical section with scooped-in sides that expands back out into a ring,below which are four side-by-side faces of two alternating types. Two of the faces are long and thin, with short protruding C-shaped ears, small raised dots for eyes, thin protruding L-shaped noses, and narrow rounded chins. Alternating with these faces are two that are much less human: wide, square faces with jowls, high raised noses (the ears of the adjacent heads), and raised eyes widely spaced, but no indication of mouth or chin. Below the faces, the pin is cylindrical again, and then there is a raised ring, narrowing and then expanding again into a raised faceted section with a hole drilled in from the underside on the sides with the broad “faces.” The circular-sectioned pin shaft tapers to a point.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Louise M. and George E. Bates Camden ME (by 1971-1992) gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums 1992.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Louise M. and George E. Bates
Title: Pin with Janiform Human Heads
Description:
The top of the pin is a flat dome with a beveled edge, surrounded by a ring.
Below the top is a cylindrical section with scooped-in sides that expands back out into a ring,below which are four side-by-side faces of two alternating types.
Two of the faces are long and thin, with short protruding C-shaped ears, small raised dots for eyes, thin protruding L-shaped noses, and narrow rounded chins.
Alternating with these faces are two that are much less human: wide, square faces with jowls, high raised noses (the ears of the adjacent heads), and raised eyes widely spaced, but no indication of mouth or chin.
Below the faces, the pin is cylindrical again, and then there is a raised ring, narrowing and then expanding again into a raised faceted section with a hole drilled in from the underside on the sides with the broad “faces.
” The circular-sectioned pin shaft tapers to a point.
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