Solar Wheel Pebble Pendant

The Solar Wheel motif was found on a pottery shard unearthed at the Hgaar Qim Temple site in Malta.  Our artist has meticulously reproduced the carving on a small stone found at the same site!  
Hgaar Qim Temple was obviously used an a sky observatory. The temple boasts a Sun Door through which the rising sun shines on Summer Solstice. It also has a Moon Window which allows the light of the Full Moon into the temple at certain times of year. And, even has a pattern of seven holes--bored through 4' stone walls--that invites the light of Pleiades (Seven Sisters) to shone onto the temple floor. 

To me, this makes this "solar" wheel all the more interesting, because it hales from a sacred place where the moon and stars were also noted to appear regularly in the earth's rotation amid the cosmos! I almost kept this piece for myself!  

The polished stone appears black in some lighting, brown in others, and as you can see in these photos, can also take on a golden sheen.  The back of this 1.5"L x 1.25"W pendant is flat, so it lies well when worn.  It hangs on a black cord that adjusts up to 32".