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UNUSUAL BYZANTINE LEAD CROSS Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Byzantine: Pre AD 1000   item# 738593 (stock#sum07-647)  click for details Faganarms Inc. 586-465-4637 $95  Possibly made for a cleric vowed to poverty. 1 1/4" height with rudimentary figure of the crucified Christ. Pierced for suspension. Polished glossy gray oxidation.

BYZANTINE BRONZE PILGRIM'S CROSS, 8TH CENTURY AD Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Byzantine: Pre AD 1000   item# 738590 (stock#sum07-642)  click for details Faganarms Inc. 586-465-4637 $110  Simple pleasant example made from sheet bronze with the design hand incised both sides. Height 1 1/4". Note that Byzantine coins were similarly made by cutting out a rough blank, then striking it with a die on one side producing the unique "cup coin".

BYZANTINE PILGRIM’S CROSS C.700 AD Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Byzantine: Pre AD 1000   item# 821120 (stock#84-823)  click for details Faganarms Inc. 586-465-4637 $130  Dating to the birth of Islam and the conflicts with Christianity which led to the Crusades. 1 3/16” height including the suspension loop. Copper with flared terminals and incised with five circles representing the wounds of Christ. Professionally cleaned with a little green encrustation remaining.

BYZANTINE PILGRIM’S CROSS. C.800-900 AD Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Byzantine: Pre AD 1000   item# 821116 (stock#84-822)  click for details Faganarms Inc. 586-465-4637 $165  Bronze. 2 1/16” including the suspension loop. Deep relief motif of the cross surrounded by raised edges. Each terminal with a disk, originally representing the wounds of Christ, reduced to four here for symmetry. Nice large example with fine patina.. Found in Eastern Europe on the pilgrimage route.

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