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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3025572, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome John, that is a pretty rare piece.</p><p>The two support chains going from the top centre of the pendant to the necklace proper are a feature of Kurdish necklaces, and the type of link is seen a lot in Kurdish jewellery too (though not exclusively). It is silver, btw, not nickel.</p><p>The pendant is in Middle Eastern prayer box style, and could contain a piece of paper with a blessing or a prayer.</p><p>Since there is still a Kurdish Christian minority, and some Middle Eastern Christian faiths have links to the Roman Catholic church, I would say this really is a Kurdish Christian necklace.</p><p><br /></p><p>The nun holding the crucifix and roses is St Theresa of Lisieux, a French saint. Not that unusual, given the connection between several Middle Eastern Christian churches and the Roman Catholic church.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/unnamed5-jpg.289965/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There was a tenth century Kurdish prince who converted to Christianity, he could be the repoussé horse rider on the back, but that is speculation on my part.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Dahhak" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Dahhak" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Dahhak</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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