10th-12th century A.D. A bronze enkolpion reliquary cross pendant with carinated suspension hoop, each face with a low-relief image of a nimbate robed figure with hands raised in the orans posture. Cf. Pitarakis, B., Les Croix-Reliquaires Pectorales Byzantines en Bronze, Paris, 2006, item 170, for type. 15 grams, 52 mm (2 in.). English collection formed in the 1990s. UK art market. Property of an Essex gentleman.