This pendant was one of a pair and was part of a woman's headpiece. The
<p>triangle is cast, the loops soldered on. The motif combines rosettes, spirals, circles, and rhombic granulation clusters, and is framed by a bead-molded border. The top loop connects to a smaller rhombic element with circle and semicircle filigree, and to an elongated hook with square and double-dot décor. Ten chains hanging down from the five bottom loops, and each has a stylized hand pendant at its end.
</p><p>The back of the pendant has an Arabic stamp with the date: nusfi 128x. The term "nusfi" means "half," and the last number of the date is lost, but it must be a number in the later 1280s AH(AD late 1860s-early 1870s).
</p><p>In addition, there is the name of the silversmith engraved in Hebrew: Sh(lomo)
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Sharayan, mahasit. The same silversmith is named on the pendants of Walters 57.2313. The term "mahasit" means "half".
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65036930" class="extiw" title="d:Q65036930"><span title="Yemeni silversmith">Sh Sharayan</span></a>
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1285-1289 AH/AD 1865-1875
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