pendant
- Museum number
- 1981,0505.1
- Description
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Pendant from a necklace; gold; open-work; almond-shaped, with suspension loop of triple-ridged strip and a central glass bead; twelve flattened hollow spheres are soldered between an outer border of corrugated strip set edgeways and a running-scroll inner border of closed S-shapes; swaged wire runs around the outside and inside of the goldwork.
- Production date
- 7thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 46.50 millimetres
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Width: 33.50 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Compare with 1981,0505.2-6
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 26 Feb-13 Jun, Germany, Bonn, Kunst and Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Byzantium: Splendour and Daily Life
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Acquisition notes
- Found just before 1914 by Grandfather of vendor; Ogden acting for Australian owner.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1981,0505.1
