Gold Chain with Fifty-Two Pendants

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Title

Gold Chain with Fifty-Two Pendants

Subject

Gold Chain with Fifty-Two Pendants, 2nd quarter of the 5th century, Germanic (Gepid?), gold and smoky quartz, length: 176 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Description

This gold necklace was found in Szilágysomlyó (modern-day Simleu-Silvaniei, Romania) in 1797 by two shepherd boys. The central pendant is smoky quartz. The other 51 pendants depict various tools and weapons in miniature as well as a man in a canoe. The chain would have been worn cross-shaped over the chest and back and the loose ends hooked into a ring eyelet.

Source

www.khm.at/de/object/aaa82b904f/

Publisher

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Antikensammlung, VIIb 1

Files

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Citation

“Gold Chain with Fifty-Two Pendants,” HAA Image Hosting, accessed June 14, 2026, https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/324.

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