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THBViking Silver Thor's Hammer / Mjolnir
Lot 39
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Dec 10, 2020
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Bidsquare : All That Glitters | Ancient & Ethnographic
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Think glass, silver, gold, bronze, brass, wearable, decorative, worth owning! Unique finds from Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Near East. Asian art from east to west. Pre-Columbian. Spanish Colonial. Fabulous Russian Icons with silver oklads. Ancient / Ethnographic jewelry, and more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Think glass, silver, gold, bronze, brass, wearable, decorative, worth owning! Unique finds from Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Near East. Asian art from east to west. Pre-Columbian. Spanish Colonial. Fabulous Russian Icons with silver oklads. Ancient / Ethnographic jewelry, and more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Northern Europe, Viking / Norse culture, ca. 800 to 1100 CE. A striking 90% silver pendant, skillfully hammered in to the form of Mjolnir, the legendary hammer of the lightning god Thor, with a downward pointing pentagon, stretched horizontally, as the hammer head below a triangular handle. The top of the charm features a zoomorphic or anthropomorphic loop, for suspension, that presents with vertical several vertical striations for hair atop a prominent spotted brow, a long risen nasal bridge, a round nose, and two deep-set eyes. The hammer itself is decorated with an incised geometric motif of woven zig-zag lines forming diamond-shapes with central circles and an additional 4 to 5 circles on both peripheries of the handle. Bearing a lustrous surface in hues of silver and gold with a rich green and russet patina, this necklace pendant is an exceptional example from Viking culture! Silver quality: 90% silver, 9% copper. Size: 1.125" L x 0.75" W (2.9 cm x 1.9 cm); Weight: 6.7 grams.
Thor's hammers were worn as religious amulets throughout the Viking era. Some even made it to the Christian era; there is actually a famous example of a Thor's hammer amulet from Fossi, Iceland that was rendered into the form of a Cross. Scholars believe that Thor's hammers were made to be worn suspended from brooches, and most examples that we know from graves in Scandinavia belonged to women. The important Viking metalworking shops correspond to their great trading ports and proto-urban centers - Birka, Helgo, Sigtuna, and Lund in Sweden, Ribe, Haithabu (Hedeby), and Fyrkat in Denmark, and Kaupang and Trondheim in Norway.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Latvia collection; ex-private Kaliningrad, Russia (Konigsberg, USSR) collection; found on the Baltic Sea coast prior to 1982
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#160716Expected light fading of detail with some abraded areas, commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent, intact, and wearable with nice patina.Condition
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