A TARABIN BEDOUIN UPPER BODY SILVER NECKLACE
Sinai Peninsula, Egypt or Palestine, mid to late 20th century

Meant to be worn over the shoulders, with three silver chainlets on either side, attached to two decorative pendants made of silver sheet, resting on both the wearer's back and chest, one pendant of trapezoid shape, with applied silver wire on the edges and a protruding cylindrical medallion with an arrow-shaped knob in the middle, caparisoned with conical silver charms, and the latter reminiscent of hirz amulet holders, in the shape of a rectangular case with wavy silver wire bands, and caparisoned with the same conical silver charms of the previous pendant.

81cm long

82gr.