Bronze Hamsa Pendant

Golden hand pendant engraved with enough zigzags to keep a cartographer busy.

This is a golden bronze hamsa pendant. The hamsa, a stylized open hand, is a protective symbol in many Middle Eastern and North African traditions and is generally linked with warding off the evil eye. At first glance, a flat, warm-gold pendant with a domed shoulder and a scalloped lower edge. The surface is covered in engraved panels of zigzags, triangles, circles and small marks. A tall rounded loop rises at the top. It is 1.75 inches long and 2.75 high.

Every inch scribbled on, and none of it wasted.