title: Female Lunulae Amulets Made of Gold Wire in the Roman Time Necropolis rontovoe 3 (South-Western Crimea)
abstract: The article considers the finds of golden lunulae amulets found in the burials of the Frontovoye 3 burial ground in the South-Western Crimea (late 1 th — early 5 th centuries). They come from female burials of the 1 st — early 3 rd centuries and find parallels on the sites of the Northern Black Sea region and the steppe zone of Eastern Europe. Lunulae amulets are particularly typical for the female constume and most likely had a magical protective role in it. Such amulets were widespread in Roma
journal: Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology