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LOT 1090
Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant
11TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (14.8 grams, 57 mm).
Enkolpion with low-relief Corpus Christi figure to obverse, hinge loops above and below; incised and inlaid cross to reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex European collection, 1990s.
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Literature
Cf. Pitarakis, B., Les Croix-Reliquaires Pectorales Byzantines en Bronze, Paris, 2006, item 146, for type.
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