11th century AD. An embossed crescent shaped amulet, with filigree decoration on the surface in form of zig-zag triangles around three groups of convex hemispheres, pearled edge and loop for the attachment at the top, also decorated with filigree ornaments. See similar pendants in G., Pentz, P. & Wemhoff, M., Vikings Life and Legend, London, 2014, item 4, p.21. 4.8 grams, 48mm (2"). From a central London collection; previously in a European collection formed 1979-1989. The pendant is part of Slavic-style jewellery. Crescent shaped amulets were particularly popular with the Slavs, Rus and the Eastern Vikings, under influence of Byzantium. Embossed broad-crescent lunars covered with filigree in the form of inscribed triangles and zigzags surrounding convex hemispheres are known in the antiquities of Great Moravia. They were part of the adornments of the nobility of both the Great Moravian Empire and Kievan Rus. These lunular pendants were mainly employed as protective amulets for girls and pregnant women. [No Reserve]