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three ETHIOPIAN harpins - view 2

silver, ca. 10 cm long, Aksum, made before 1945
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  • Any meaning (that you know of) to the symbols of the domes/circles? I like the Christmas tree backgound.

  • @Chantal, thanks, no I know no further symbolic meaning.........  (the Christmas tree is outside in the garden).

  • Good, it means no snow then?

  • @ Chantal : No, the snow has all melted again.......... it is rainy now. About the symbolic - the middle pin has a top resembling an Ethiopian cross without middle bar... but I have no idea. I like the part looking like a silverthread wound around like a spindle.

  • A circle symbolizing  eternity like in some Moroccan pendant? or not?

  • @Chantal, sorry, I have  no idea.......... I thought it was perhaps a Christian symbol taken fron the crosses of Ethiopia---- but I do not know, I might be completely wrong here.

    @Sarah or Patti, thanks for the feature!

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