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This particular style is very similar to the Nadif pieces, yet has some differences.
The form of the layout with the five cabochons, and the design of the Niello are different, also the combination of the large and small pendants.
Red glass, niello and Silver are worn in Nadif, but also in the lower valley of the Souss river.
Nadif pieces tend to have a central cabochon rather than the five. and we also regularly see the Tanit form pendant from Nadif.
So my conclusion is that this style of pendant may be seen in the Anti Altas and even maybe in Nadif, but it is not a piece which originates there, and it belongs to a wider region in Southern Morocco.