This type of cross is termed bottony or treflée, owing to that each square arm terminates in one large and two smaller circular motifs. Both faces are enamelled with quatrefoils and crosses in dark blue, red and white. There are double suspension loops at the top of the cross, which indicate that it once linked into a hinge-type fitting, as often seen in Early and Middle Byzantine jewellery. The side walls of the back and front of the cross are made separately, which may have either facilitated manufacture, or possibly meant that the two halves originally opened and that the cross was used as a miniature reliquary to hold a religious relic. For a near identical cross, see Acc. no. 1998.542 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.