12th century AD. A bronze enkolpion reliquary pendant with barrel-shaped loop and two hinged plates; obverse with Corpus Christi in low relief flanked by robed figures; reverse with figure in orans pose surrounded by busts of the Evangelists. Cf. Ross, M.C., Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Volume 2: Jewelry, Enamels and Art of the Migration Period, Washington, 2005, item 98, for type.78 grams, 10cm (4"). From the collection of a Surrey gentleman; acquired 1970-1980.