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LOT 1022
Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant
CIRCA 8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
3 3/4 in. (42 grams, 94 mm).
Hollow-formed sheet-bronze enkolpion with cells to the angles (two remaining), five large cells to the obverse with inset cabochon (one remaining). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the German art market pre 1998.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
See Pitarakis, B., Les Croix-Reliquaires Pectorales Byzantines en Bronze, Paris, 2006, for discussion.
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