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LOT 1393
Viking Age Bronze Pendant with Interlace
11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (2.32 grams, 25 mm).
With pierced lug above, pelletted border with geometric design of four pelletted loops and central boss. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired in the 1990s.
Ex property of a German collector.
Literature
Cf. Korshyn, V.E., Yazicheskiye Priveski Drevniye Rysi X-XIV Vekov, Moscow, 2013, item K.6.04.
Footnotes
In terms of material culture, it is impossible not to note the influence that the Scandinavians had on Rus at that time. Evidence of this, in particular, is a number of pendants from the main centres of Rus. It is curious that the composition of volute-shaped scrolls was widely popular among the Slavic environment of the 11th-mid-12th century. A similar pendant made of tin-lead alloy was found in Gochevo, Kursk region.
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