🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Copper pendant in Bavaria

[TheHbeast]

Found a little pendant in a farmers field in Bavaria. Front seems to depict a bushel of arrows? Back looks like a depiction of some kind of classical structure. Any suggestions? My thought was the arrows was a guild symbol. Thanks!

 

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[Red-Coat]

I don’t know what it is, can’t read the wording, and don’t know if this is connected, but the three crossed arrows was a symbol used on the Carcassian flag, with two arcs of stars. As on this modern ring:

Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea in the Northern Caucasus. Beginning in 1763, the Russians waged war on them, systematically driving them from their homeland (generally into regions of the Ottoman Empire) in an ethnic cleansing. By 1864, three quarters of the population had been anihilated and they became one of the first stateless peoples in modern history.

Early forms of the flag with that symbol first appeared in the 1800s and a standardised version was designed in 1830 by Seferbiy Zaneqo which was formally adopted in 1836. People of Circassian ethnicity still proudly recognise their heritage (hence the modern ring, and also pendants). The same symbology is still used today on the flag of the Republic of Adygea in the Russian Federation.

 

[Bramblefind]

I think it is a religious medal - Saint Philomena -

SAINT PHILOMENA TOMB & THE 3 ARROWS DECORS - 19th CENTURY ANTIQUE BRONZE PENDANT | #424858324

RARE ANTIQUE RELIGIOUS MEDAL PENDANT dating from 19th century ! SAINT PHILOMENA decors of the holy into her tomb shrine at Mugnano (Italy) At reverse DECORS OF THE CROWN OF PALM & THE THREE ARROWS in

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[Mackaydon]

Another great ID by Bramblefind.
My guess is the medal was purchased years ago in the Sanctuary of Saint Philomena in Mugnano, Italy.
The obverse image on the medal is taken from a scene in the Sanctuary-as shown here:
https://www.saint PHILOMENAsantuariosantafilomena.it/en/home1
Don in SoCal

 

[TheHbeast]

I don’t know what it is, can’t read the wording, and don’t know if this is connected, but the three crossed arrows was a symbol used on the Carcassian flag, with two arcs of stars. As on this modern ring:

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Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea in the Northern Caucasus. Beginning in 1763, the Russians waged war on them, systematically driving them from their homeland (generally into regions of the Ottoman Empire) in an ethnic cleansing. By 1864, three quarters of the population had been anihilated and they became one of the first stateless peoples in modern history.

Early forms of the flag with that symbol first appeared in the 1800s and a standardised version was designed in 1830 by Seferbiy Zaneqo which was formally adopted in 1836. People of Circassian ethnicity still proudly recognise their heritage (hence the modern ring, and also pendants). The same symbology is still used today on the flag of the Republic of Adygea in the Russian Federation.

Wow, I didn’t know any of this. Thanks for all the research. What a cool story for this piece

 

[TheHbeast]

I think it is a religious medal - Saint Philomena -

SAINT PHILOMENA TOMB & THE 3 ARROWS DECORS - 19th CENTURY ANTIQUE BRONZE PENDANT | #424858324

RARE ANTIQUE RELIGIOUS MEDAL PENDANT dating from 19th century ! SAINT PHILOMENA decors of the holy into her tomb shrine at Mugnano (Italy) At reverse DECORS OF THE CROWN OF PALM & THE THREE ARROWS in

www.worthpoint.com

This looks almost or exactly identical!