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Levant Pendant

Posted by Lynn Ardent on May 29, 2015 at 12:44am

A small silver pendant, from somewhere in the Levant (identification is welcome!) With two red, and one green glass stones. One real coin from the early 1900s, the other jewelry coins. A finely worked pendant in high grade silver.

Comments

Thelma May 29, 2015 at 9:06pm

This is a lovely pendant, Lynn .. so well preserved. Have you explored the symbolism of the shape and of the colours of the glass stones?
Sami Yousef May 29, 2015 at 9:42pm

Very nice Lynn, I can recognize one of the coins as old Russian. Which was evident in some jewlery in the levant specially in Palestine which attracted lots of pilgrims from Russia. Br, sami
Lynn Ardent May 30, 2015 at 1:03am

Thank you so much Sami and Thelma. Sami, yes it is a beautiful old Russian coin. I think the pendant is probably from Palestine or Syria. Thelma, I have not delved deeply into the symbolism. I assume the triangle shape is for the female divine, and the flowers are fertility and also perhaps the circles eyes to deflect the evil eye. There is a lot of very interesting symbolism in jewelry from the Levant.