«Провожая любимое дитя…»: РФА серебряных украшений из детских захоронений средневекового некрополя Бабчик Восточный в Керченском Приазовье
“Seeing off my Beloved Child…”: XRF of Silver Jewelry from Children’s Graves in the Medieval Necropolis of Babchik Vostochny in the Kerch Azov Region

Summary/Abstract: The article studies the composition of the alloy and the technology of making silver jewelry found in children’s burials from Babchik Vostochny — a 14th century slab burial ground in the Crimean Azov region. Silver spherical ornamented buttons in the studied necropolis and in all other sites with similar accessories were found in children’s burials. Surely, they were not just fashionable at the time but belonged specifically to children’s and adolescent costumes. Widespread in Crimea in the 14th century, richly decorated spherical buttons, made using similar technology, but extremely varied in decoration, indicate the existence, probably, of specialized workshops in the Bosporus (in Korchev). A curious symbiosis is the presence in one burial of signs of Christian piety (a pendant in the form of a cross, crosses carved into the headboards of graves) and coins with the Muslim symbol of faith.

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