title: Metal Jewellery in the Context of a Sanctuary: Interpretation Potential
abstract: Abstract Metal jewellery used as votive offerings is discovered at the “barbarian” mountain sanctuary of Eklizi-Burun (the Crimea) and dating from the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD . Most of these items were probably part of female costume known from funerary contexts in the Central Crimea, which differ both regarding their location (in the Crimean Foothills and on the South-Coast), as well as the specific features of the burial rite (“cremation” vs . “inhumation”). A small part of the jewellery i
journal: Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia