Roman crescent pendant

Roman crescent pendant as a authentic replica.

Here you can buy a detailed reproduction of a Roman pendant in the shape of a crescent moon.

The historical model for this Roman crescent pendant is a pendant from a horse harness from an English collection, which dates to the period from 49 to 200 AD and was made of a copper alloy.
 
Link to the original crescent pendant...

Crescent-shaped pendants can be found in almost all Roman settlements, military camps and burial grounds during antiquity and represented the moon goddess Luna.

In the Roman Empire, it was customary for girls and young women to wear a moon amulet around their neck until the day of their wedding, which was supposed to offer them fertility, blessings and protection from the evil eye.

Even in today's interpretation, the moon symbolises feminine strength and female identity and therefore also sensuality, intuition and creativity in women.

Like the original crescent moon pendant, this replica also has the following dimensions: 3.9 x 2.9 cm.

You can buy the crescent pendant in high-quality bronze or genuine silver-plated.
Alternatively, you can also order it in 925 sterling silver (please note delivery time).
Alloy...

The Roman crescent pendant comes with a 1 metre long black leather strap.

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Crescent-shaped pendants, known as lunulae, were in use throughout the Mediterranean region in antiquity. Equivalent to the so-called bulla worn by boys, girls in particular wore small moon pendants as apotropaic amulets to protect them against sorcery or evil powers and the evil eye.

Crescent moon pendants are also documented in Roman statues and paintings, for example in a painting from the excavations in Hawara, which shows a woman with a pendant in the shape of a crescent moon.

However, the lunulae not only symbolised the magical relationship between women and the moon. In the Roman imperial period, they were also used to decorate horse harnesses, as the crescent moon was considered a general symbol of protection by the Romans and was supposed to protect both horse and rider from harm.

Roman horse harnesses were therefore often adorned with small, decorative pendants made of non-ferrous metal and frequently also tin-plated or silver-plated. The range of types was quite wide and included in particular phallus-shaped fascinum and crescent-shaped lunula pendants, which were widespread among the Roman cavalry throughout the empire from the late Augustan period onwards.

From the Claudian-Neronian period onwards, leaf-, pelta- and drop-shaped types also came into circulation and remained in use until the 2nd century. The crescent-shaped lunula pendants in particular even survived into the early Middle Ages.