{"id":"EA-YAMAGUCHIDAI-HERA-001","label":"Yamaguchidai site large hera-shaped pendant","people_or_site":"Yamaguchidai site large hera-shaped pendant","country_current":"Japan","historic_region":"Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan; Yamaguchidai site","macroregion":"East Asia / Japan","local_name":"ヘラ状垂飾","source_term":"ヘラ状垂飾; hera-shaped pendant; spatula-shaped pendant","source_language":"Japanese","object_description":"A large spatula-shaped pendant of imported serpentinite, more than 10 cm long, pierced near the top. Wear around the hole runs at nearly 45 degrees, on both faces. From a pit; one of five such pendants from Kanagawa and Gunma.","function_summary":"Published as a hera-shaped pendant or waist ornament from a pit; the best-formed of its cluster for the whirled-blade reading.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"kanagawa_2024_jomon_accessories_hera_pendants","source_type":"secondary_archaeological_synthesis","source_url":"https://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/documents/8040/r6kouza-7.pdf","page_or_plate":"Kanagawa 2024 lecture PDF Fig. 2 cluster summary","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Approximate municipality-level point at Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture; not the site's own location.","jade_complex_role":"bridge","blurb":"Read the wear and the blade gives itself up. Around the hole of this hand-length slat of imported serpentinite, the cord-groove bites at a stubborn forty-five degrees across both faces — not the straight overhead rub a dangling pendant leaves, but the two-faced, angled scoring of a blade spun on a cord. Excavators lifted it from a pit at Yamaguchidai in Kawasaki, one of five such large Jōmon ornaments; the archaeologist who studied their wear read the groove instead as a cord held taut against the body, the mark of a personal emblem: precious foreign stone worn at the hip to mark who you were.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"ヘラ状垂飾 (hera-jō suishoku): 'spatula-shaped pendant'","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":true,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 4050–3050 BC","date_qualification":"Date of the five-pendant group; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"cluster_attribution","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"kanagawa_2024_jomon_accessories_hera_pendants, Kanagawa 2024 lecture PDF Fig. 2 cluster summary","sources":[{"citation":"Kanagawa Prefecture archaeology lecture (2025), Fig. 2, after Tsubota 2017","url":"https://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/documents/8040/r6kouza-7.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260212035318/https://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/documents/8040/r6kouza-7.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Kanagawa Prefecture archaeology lecture (2025), Fig. 2, after Tsubota 2017","source_display":"Kanagawa Prefecture archaeology lecture (2025), Fig. 2, after Tsubota 2017","date_citation_display":"Kanagawa 2024 lecture PDF Fig. 2 cluster summary","object_display":"A large spatula-shaped pendant of imported serpentinite, more than 10 cm long, pierced near the top. Wear around the hole runs at nearly 45 degrees, on both faces. From a pit; one of five such pendants from Kanagawa and Gunma.","function_display":"Published as a hera-shaped pendant or waist ornament from a pit; the best-formed of its cluster for the whirled-blade reading.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"yamaguchidai site","display_name":"Yamaguchidai site large hera-shaped pendant","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-yamaguchidai-hera-001-fig2.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-yamaguchidai-hera-001-fig2_thumb.jpg","credit":"","license":"","source_page":"https://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/documents/8040/r6kouza-7.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Yamaguchidai site large hera-shaped pendant, three views with section — ヘラ状垂飾"},"slug":"ea-yamaguchidai-hera-001-yamaguchidai-site-large-hera-shaped-pendant"}