Pages: 255 - 262

This paper publishes the adornments featuring the Pre-Hunnic polychrome style discovered by the excavations of the cemetery of Opushki in the Piedmont Crimea. Artefacts in this style occur in the Crimea, Lower Don, and north-western Black Sea area in the second half of the third and fourth centuries AD. There are spatial differences between these finds: the Crimean foothills know only adornments, while the rest of the area knows mostly horse harness and some weapons and, in a very few cases, earrings. The reasons behind these differences are still unanswered, even hypothetically, and the problem of the production place of these artefacts and their prototypes is still a subject of discussion. Introduction of new finds from Opushki cemetery for discussion is a significant extension of the available sources for analysis of this problem.

Keywords: piedmont Crimea, Opushki cemetery, late Roman period, polychrome style, earrings

Information about authors:

Igor Khrapunov (Simferopol, Crimea). Doctor of Historical Sciences. V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 4, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
Anastasiya Stoyanova (Simferopol, Crimea). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of Crimea of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 2, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]