Copper-alloy, 1.73 grams, 29.04 mm. 10th-12th century AD. The Seliai or 'Selonians' were a people of the eastern Baltic in the region of modern Latvia. The pendant consists of a thin 0.5mm thick) copper-alloy sheet pierced to accept a suspension ring. The surface is provided with eight repoussé roundels: multiples of four were culturally important to the peoples of the Baltic region, whose mythology included, inter alia, Svantovit a god with four faces (looking in the four cardinal directions). The pendant may originally have formed part of a highly ornamental metal collar such as were worn by important females in medieval Selonian culture; the highest-status female graves could contain as many as four such adornments. Reference: Griciuviene, E. The Selonians- Baltic Archaeological Exhibition Catalogue, 2007, p.119ff and cf. p.144. Very fine condition.