Amber Goddess Holding Animals in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Title: Pendant: Divinity Holding Hares

Artist/Maker: Unknown

Culture: Etruscan or Italic

Place: Italy (Place created)

Date: 600–550 B.C.

Medium: Amber

Object Number: 77.AO.82

Dimensions: 97 × 64 × 24 mm (3 13/16 × 2 1/2 × 15/16 in.)

Credit Line: Gift of Gordon McLendon

Alternate Titles: Carved Pendant: Goddess Holding Two Animals (Alternate Title)
Pendant with a Divinity Holding Hares (Display Title)

Object Type: Mythological figure


This pendant represents a divinity holding a pair of over-sized hares. Standing in a frontal pose, the figure's gender is indeterminate, but may be a mistress of the beasts or native female hunting deity related to Artemis. Wearing a short chiton and boots, the figure grasps the hind feet of a large crouching hare in each arm, holding the animals with their heads downward.


www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/7945/unknown-maker-pendant-divinity-holding-hares-etruscan-or-italic-600-550-bc