Neck Cross

Creator

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Geography

Ethiopia, Africa

Culture

Ethiopian

Medium

Metal alloy

Dimensions

1 ³/₁₆ ✕ ¹¹/₁₆ ✕ ¹/₁₆ in. (3.0 ✕ 1.7 ✕ 0.2 cm)

0.16 oz. (4.4 g)

Credit Line

Bequest of David P. Harris ('46), 2020

Accession Number

2020.212

Provenance

Purchased by David P. Harris. Date, receipt, and supplemental documents are unavailable.

Condition

Slight corrosion on the lozenge-shaped element on side 1. Some minor patina is visible on side 2 around the perforated triangles on the circular element.

References

Brad Hostetler, and Lynn Jones, eds., Ethiopian Objects in the Blick-Harris Study Collection: Art, Context, and the Persistence of Form, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022): pp. 112–27, 148, cat. 27. https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol8/iss1/1/

Description

The upper end of this pendant cross — the section directly below the suspension loop — is decorated with a cross of equal arms, created by four triangular cutouts in the metal, and inscribed within a circle. The lower part of the object is lozenge-shaped. Triangular points articulate the edge where the circle and lozenge merge. Neither side is further decorated.

Sarah Mathiesen, in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 148. https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol8/iss1/1/