Pendant
33-45-48
From: Russia | St. Petersburg (Russia) | Gdovsk County
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | 33-45-48 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Slavic |
Provenience | Russia | St. Petersburg (Russia) | Gdovsk County |
Locus | Village Zamezhnay | Burial 1 |
Date Made | 500-899 CE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Bronze |
Description | Bronze. Flat triangle pierced in each angle and in the middle of the base. Through the piercing at the apex is a large suspension ring; from the piercings at the middle and one of the angles of the base, similar smaller flat triangles are suspended; the piercing at the other base angle is missing. Each of the triangles bears on its face three circles each composed of engraved concentric circles; the larger triangle also bears three peripheral bands composed of short engraved lines; the middle pendant triangle has three holes pierced through its base, presumably for the suspension of further pendants. |
Length | 8.9 cm |
Width | 2.8 cm |
Credit Line | Exchange with State Anthropological Museum, Moscow, 1933 |
Other Number | 119 - Field No SF |
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