Formed of a length of multiple loop-in-loop chain, terminating in a hook-and-loop closure, the chain supporting a central crescent-shaped pendant flanked by two rectanfular pendants decorated with five hammered hemispheres 40 cm long Note Some styles of Roman jewelry were both very long-lived and used throughout the Empire. The crescent pendant, symbolic of the moon, that decorate this necklace is often found in Roman jewelry and in depictions on Roman mummy portraits from Egypt. Provenance Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above in 1984 Condition With traces of wear, depression on all hemispheres on the rectangular ornaments