Pendant: Female Holding a Child (Kourotrophos) (Front View)

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.