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Amber pendant depicting a divinity holding giant hares
Amber pendant depicting a divinity holding giant hares

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, or chitoniskos, and boots, the figure grasps the hind feet of a large crouching hare in each arm, holding the animals with their heads downward.

No definite conclusion has been reached about the sex or age of the figure. As to identity, the composition, the age-old “Mistress” or “Master of the Animals” schema, announces that the figure is heroic or divine (or both). The proportions, head-to-body and legs-to-torso, the short neck, high chest, and small feet, and the relative scale of hares and figure seem to suggest that the figure is that of a child, but there exist many images of adults with these characteristics in Greek and Etruscan art of this and earlier periods.

The somatic parallels with some images of children in Hittite art are striking. A critical comparison is the rock-crystal figure of a child in the Walters Art Museum, which Jeanny Vorys Canby demonstrates to be a “Hittite expression of the miraculous child concept.” The short hairstyle, head-to-body proportions, and general sculptural form are remarkably alike.

For an in-depth analysis of the human figure and the symbolism of the hares in multiple cultures, see www.getty.edu/publications/ambers/objects/4/.

Etruscan or Italic
ca. 600–550 BCE
Amber

Getty Villa Museum (77.AO.82)

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