Къснономадски пандантиви амулети от района на Долния Дунав
Late Nomadic Pendent Amulets from the Lower Danube

Author(s): Yoto Valeriev
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Lower Danube; 11th—12th cc.; nomads; Pechenegs (Patzinak); Ouzoi; Cumans; pendent amulets; leaf-shaped; rectangular/trapezium-shaped; lunula/palmetto
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the so called late nomadic pendent amulets from the territories on the Lower Danube. They were cast from different metal alloys. The article is supplied by a catalogue of pendants from Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova and a table with metallographic study of some of the amulets.The pendants are attributed to the late nomads: Pechenegs (Patzinak), Ouzoi, and Cumans, and are dated to the 10th—12th centuries. The author divided the pendants in three groups according to their form: 1) leaf-shaped, 2) rectangular/trapezium-shaped, 3) lunula/palmetto form.

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