Gold necklace with crescent-shaped pendant
Formed of a length of multiple loop-in-loop chain, terminating in a hook-and-loop closure, the chain supporting a central crescent-shaped pendant flanked by two rectanfular pendants decorated with five hammered hemispheres
Note
Some styles of Roman jewelry were both very long-lived and used throughout the Empire. The crescent pendant, symbolic of the moon, that decorate this necklace is often found in Roman jewelry and in depictions on Roman mummy portraits from Egypt.
Period
Roman period, 1st-3rd century A.D.
Art market, United Kingdom
Private collection, Switzerland, from the above in 1974
