BYZANTINE BRONZE CROSS PENDANT WITH SAINTS Ca. AD 600 - 700. A bronze cross pendant with each arm terminating in a rounded lobe with small circular knobs on the sides. The obverse is decorated with five roundels containing frontal busts of saints, including a central figure with clasped hands. A suspension loop is set above. The reverse is plain. For similar see: Spier J., Byzantium and the West: Jewelry in the First Millennium AD, fig. 15.2. Size: 68mm x 45mm; Weight: 30g Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the Belgian art market in the 1990s.