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LOT 0738
Roman Gold Pendant with Garnet
4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.
3/8 in. (0.15 grams, 9 mm).
Discoid pendant with cell, inset cabochon garnet, integral loop above. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a late Japanese collector, 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
For examples of similar pendants in gold and garnet for earrings see Adams, D.N., Late Antique, Migration period and Early Byzantine Garnet Cloisonné ornaments, origin, styles and workshop production, vol.I, text and catalogue, London, 1991, comparative pl.4, nos.1-2.
FootnotesThe object reflect Late Antique/Early Eastern Roman decorative and manufacturing traditions. Flat garnet plates originate with one class of ring-stone intaglios from the Late Hellenistic and Imperial Roman periods, but developed especially in the 4th-6th century, where they preserved the Romano-Greco traditions with the influence of Sassanian and Pontic peoples. They were used for jewellery, weaponry and decorative expensive objects.
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