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LOT 1067
Byzantine Lead Pendant with Virgin and Child
6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (3.65 grams, 27 mm).
Discoid bifacial plaque with low-relief ornament: obverse - Mary Theotokos with infant Jesus inside a billeted border; reverse - reserved cross with pellets in the spandrels and pellets to the border.
ProvenancePrivate collection.
Private European collection, 2002.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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