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LOT 0875
Central Asian Bronze Pendant with Pierced Cross
CIRCA 2300-2000 B.C.
3 in. (114 grams, 78 mm).
Of heavy openwork construction, the central cross and annular frame with applied pellets; integral collared suspension loop.
ProvenanceEx S Collection, London, UK, 1970-1990s.
Studied by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s with reference no.Y-268.
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Central Asian Bronze Pendant with Pierced Cross
Circa 2300-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Of heavy openwork construction, the central cross and annular frame with applied pellets; integral collared suspension loop. 114 grams, 78 mm
Ex S Collection, London, UK, 1970-1990s. Studied by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s with reference no.Y-268. -
Western Asiatic Manuscript Fragment
14th-16th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Rectangular paper leaf with a block of text to each side in nastaliq script, black ink with red ink captions and diacritics; mounted in a bifacial glazed panel. 213 grams, 18 cm
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Important North West London collection. -
Large Western Asiatic Gold Lunar Pendant
Circa 2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
Shaped as a crescent moon with pearled border. 5.08 grams, 45 mm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.
The gold lunula was a characteristic type of necklace, collar, or crescent-shaped pendant of the late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and most often early Bronze Age. The crescent appears in various forms in the material culture of the southern Levant. It also appears in Mesopotamian and Egyptian iconography. It is most frequently associated with the crescent moon and its related deity. Such pendants were worn at the neck, in contact with the body, as protective amulets.
