Amber Woman Holding a Child in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Title: Pendant: Female Holding a Child (Kourotrophos)

Artist/Maker: Unknown

Culture: Etruscan or Italic

Place: Italy (Place created)

Date: 600–550 B.C.

Medium: Amber

Object Number: 77.AO.84

Dimensions: 130 × 45 × 18 mm, 55.2 g (5 1/8 × 1 3/4 × 11/16 in., 0.1217 lb.)

Credit Line: Gift of Gordon McLendon

Alternate Titles: Carved Pendant: Female Holding a Child (Kourotrophos) (Alternate Title)
Pendant with a Woman Holding a Child (Display Title)

Object Type: Pendant

This amber is carved in the shape of a female figure holding a child at her side. The figure is a kourotróphos, a typology for females shown as child-rearers, who carry infants or children. Standing frontally with her right hand at her breast, the woman wears a long, heavy cloak and a conical hat, and both figures are shod in close-fitting boots. Her left forearm emerges from the cloak to embrace the child, who wears the same garments as the mother, but with the mantle pulled over its head.


Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/7947/unknown-maker-pendant-female-holding-a-child-kourotrophos-etruscan-or-italic-600-550-bc