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LOT 0343
Viking Age Bronze Pendant Pair
8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/8 - 4 1/4 in. (255 grams total, 10.5-10.9 cm).
Each a tongue-shaped plaque with openwork construction, ribbed tubes to the upper edge with loops to the reverse, braided wire and concentric circle detailing; rim formed as loops each with a duck-foot pendant; Finno-Ugric type. [2]
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.XXIX, item 19, for type.
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