Pages: 277-288 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp234277288 

In Frontovoe 3, a necropolis of the Roman period discovered in the South-Western Crimea in 2018, three bronze anthropomorphic pendants were found in children’s grave 305, among other grave goods. Grave 305 is attributed to the end of the 1 ^st — the first half of the 2 ^nd century according to the totality of grave goods. Similar pendants are found in eight more graves at this site, in which adults were buried. Anthropomorphic pendants are also known from other synchronous Crimean burial grounds. The question arises to what extent such pendants are typical for children’s graves of the Crimea in Roman times. Parallels from other cemeteries from different territories of the Crimea showed that pendants of this type, in contrast to the ones from Frontovoye 3 burial ground, are most characteristic of children’s burials. These products are almost never found outside the Crimea, and the time of their prevalence falls approximately in the middle of the 1 ^st century — first half of the 2 ^nd century.

Keywords: Crimea, burial ground, anthropomorphic pendants, chronology, funerary rite

Information about author:

Anna Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
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ORCID: 0000-0001-7521-5071