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Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)

A ca. 1100 Constantinopolitan gold and cloisonné enamel pendant with Christ Pantokrator and the Virgin Hagiosoritissa.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1994.403

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Title: Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)
Date: ca. 1100
Medium: Gold, cloisonné enamel
Culture: Byzantine
Geography: Not asserted in archive
Classification: Not asserted in archive
Source record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art object 1994.403 ↗
Rights checked: 2026-09-10 · Public Domain

Uncertainty retained

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Geography + Transmission profile

Constantinople & Marmara

4th–15th c. Byzantine core; records vary · 1 registered source

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Historical frame

Imperial-capital and Marmara/Nicaean context.

Production / use

Object record: A ca. 1100 Constantinopolitan gold and cloisonné enamel pendant with Christ Pantokrator and the Virgin Hagiosoritissa. Production place is taken only from explicit museum/graph evidence; current collection is a separate present-location state.

Movement / provenance

BIU010 does not infer medieval movement from current museum ownership. Any gift/provenance hypothesis must be carried by an explicit source-backed network record.

Political / ecclesiastical

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Artistic relation

Object style is not used by itself to draw a transmission arrow.

Reception / adaptation

Current collection/reception is modern context and is not substituted for medieval geography.

Uncertainty

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Geography is not transmission proofGeographic proximity, shared typology, or visual similarity does not establish influence, workshop movement, trade, or transmission direction.

Direct graph trails

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Places + regional groupings

2 direct

Constantinoplemade-in · source-backed Constantinopolitan Luxury Production Network← includes-object-production-evidence · source-backed

Verified objects

0 direct

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Icon types + scenes

2 direct

Christ Pantokratordepicts-as-type · source-backed Virgin Hagiosoritissadepicts-as-type · source-backed

Materials + making

1 direct

Cloisonné Enameluses-technique · source-backed

History + actors

0 direct

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Sacred-space evidence

0 direct

No direct edge in this part of the current graph.

Concepts + transmission methods

5 direct

Rights & Provenance Boundary← governs · system-rule Three-Quarter Intercessory Poseuses-pose · source-backed Directed Gazedisplays-gaze · source-backed Blessing Gestureuses-gesture · source-backed Raised Hands in Prayeruses-gesture · source-backed

Two-step navigation

Keep the intermediate evidence visible.

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokrator← places-type-in-zone →Hosios Loukas

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokrator← places-type-in-zone →Daphni Monastery

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokrator← depicts-as-type →Icon with Christ Pantokrator (Met 17.190.66)

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokrator← depicts-as-type →Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)made-in →Constantinople← associated-with →Virgin Hodegetria

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)made-in →Constantinople← associated-with →Virgin Eleousa

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)uses-technique →Cloisonné Enameluses-material →Precious Metal

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)uses-technique →Cloisonné Enameluses-material →Glass Frit

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokratorrepresents →Christ

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Virgin Hagiosoritissarepresents →Virgin Mary

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokratorassociated-with-zone →Dome

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokrator← can-contain →Lunette

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokratoruses-attribute →Gospel Book

Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-type →Christ Pantokratormay-display →Open Inscribed Book

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Sources supporting this profile.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Double-Sided Pendant Icon with the Virgin and Christ Pantokrator
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Discovery profile

Where can this record lead?

10 bounded direct results · 12 bounded two-step paths · 4 navigation themes

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Blessing GestureDouble-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403) —uses-gesture→ Blessing Gesture · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-495.Christ PantokratorDouble-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403) —depicts-as-type→ Christ Pantokrator · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-019.Cloisonné EnamelDouble-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403) —uses-technique→ Cloisonné Enamel · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-021.ConstantinopleDouble-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403) —made-in→ Constantinople · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-022.

Visible two-step paths

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Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)uses-gestureBlessing Gestureuses-gestureIcon with Christ Pantokrator (Met 17.190.66)
Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.
Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)uses-gestureBlessing Gestureincludes-gestureVirgin Hodegetria
Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.
Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)depicts-as-typeChrist PantokratorrepresentsChrist
Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.

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