EA-ENDOHIROYA-HERA-001 - archaeological find
Endo Hiroya site large hera-shaped pendant
Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan; Endo Hiroya site - East Asia
Function not recorded Candidate only
ヘラ状垂飾 Japanese
Source term: ヘラ状垂飾; hera-shaped pendant; spatula-shaped pendant
ヘラ状垂飾 (hera-jō suishoku): 'spatula-shaped pendant'
A palm-length blade of green serpentinite, pierced once at the top — and worn, on both faces, in a matching slant nearly 45 degrees off the hole. That doubled oblique groove is the whole puzzle: a cord that dragged hard and at an angle, as if the thing hung heavy or turned. Five such large blades cluster in Early Jōmon Kanagawa and Gunma; this one lay in a pit at the Endō Hiroya settlement some 6,000 years ago. Catalogued as a body ornament, it is mute on whether it was ever swung — no rite survives to say.
- Object
- ヘラ状垂飾; hera-shaped pendant; spatula-shaped pendant. Specimens/count: one large serpentinite example; HeritageMap also records a pit-excavated Early-late hera pendant. Material: serpentinite. Dimensions: over 10 cm class; exact dimensions need original report. Perforation: upper perforation; near-45-degree oblique wear on both faces around perforation. Context: from pit; site is an excavated settlement with Early Jomon furnace pits, pit dwellings, pits, and good Moroiso a-b pottery. Date: late Early Jōmon, Moroiso a–b phase, ~6000–5600 cal BP.
- Function
- Published as a pit-excavated hera-shaped pendant of the later Early Jōmon; part of the five-object Kanto/Gunma cluster the atlas tracks for its anomalous bilateral wear.
- Map confidence
- low_medium - Approximate locality or municipality/site-cluster anchor from the local dossier; refine before public release.
- Source location
- Kanagawa 2024 lecture PDF Fig. 2; HeritageMap pit-context route