3rd-5th century AD. A group of two Kiev culture bronze pendants each comprising a triangular plaque with loop above and lobe to each lower angle surrounded by three radiating lugs; red enamel panel to yoke and each lobe. 11 grams total, 29-32mm (1 1/4"). From a private collection; previously in an old central Asian collection; acquired in the late 1940s. The Kiev archaeological culture was located in the basin of the rivers Dnieper and Visla between the 3rd and 5th centuries; archaeologists connect this culture with the historical ancestors of the Slavs. However, there are suggestions that in different regions of the Kiev culture the ethnogenetic processes were not the same. In some cases, the Slavic component prevailed, whilst Baltic and others were dominant elsewhere. [2, No Reserve]