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LOT 0947
Byzantine Reliquary Cross Pendant Plate
10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (13 grams, 54 mm).
Obverse plate from an enkolpion with low-relief nimbate figure in orans posture. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex property of a North London, UK, gentleman, 1990s.
Literature
See Pitarakis, B., Les Croix-Reliquaires Pectorales Byzantines en Bronze, Paris, 2006, for discussion.
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