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LOT 0166
Large Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Pendant Cross
10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
4 7/8 in. (109 grams, 12.5 cm).
Enkolpion with hinged barrel-shaped loop; incised nimbate figure to each face in orans pose within a decorative border.
Provenance
Ex DRG Coins and Antiquities, Bishops Stortford, Essex, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
Accompanied by a handwritten dealer's ticket.
Literature
See Pitarakis, B., Les croix-reliquaires pectorales byzantines en bronze, Paris, 2006, p.384, no.630, for type.
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