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LOT 1114
Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant
CIRCA 9TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (4.96 grams, 35 mm).
Cross pommee type, bifacial with punched rings to the lobes and central lozenge; some distortion. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Den of Antiquity, Cambridge, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
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