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Roman time female burials Frontovoe 3, Crimea

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Jewelry from the cemetery (328 graves) near Frontovoye village, Nakhimovsky district of Sevastopol, Crimea. General dating of the burial ground 1st-5th century.

During excavations archaeologists discovered an untouched burial of the 2nd-4th century. Jewelry and other grave goods were influenced, on one hand, of Chersonesus which was an outpost of the Roman Empire in the Crimea, and on the other, the so-called Crimean Scythia, a state formation that developed in the 2nd century BCE and lasted until the first half of the 3rd century CE.

Among the finds, a gold teardrop-shaped pendant with a red insert and beaded edging stand out. Similar items were previously found in the Chersonese necropolis.

Photo: Sergey Yazikov
Photo: Sergey Yazikov


Medallion with Aphrodite and Eros, (woman with a child), 2nd century. Burial no 287

Medallion-Frontovoe

Amulet cases, 1st/2nd century
burials no 312, 323

Twelve lunula pendants, the end of the 1st – beginning of the 3rd century

end of the 1st – first half of the 2nd century

Sarmatian style necklace. 2nd-beginning of the 3rd century. Burial no 208
Made of gold with carnelian, amethyst & glass beads. Spacers with quadrate bells are very much in Parthian style.

necklace-Frontovoe

Necklace. Burial 287, 2nd century

Necklace Frontovoe burial 287, 2nd century
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Earrings, the second – the third quarter of the 4th century

Earrings, the second - the third quarter of the 4th century, Frontovoye 3, Crimea

Earrings, burial no. 320; 1st/2nd century

Silver bracelet with a carnelian intaglio, mid-3rd century; burial nr 145

Sewn-on ornaments, 1st/2nd century
burial no. 312

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