Привески-лунницы с Троицкого раскопа (хронология)

Abstract

In the chronological distribution of the lunate objects found at the Troitsky (32). Excavation, the first period of their use (10th — first half of the 11th century) is well traceable and substantiated through Nerevsky finds. The chronological lacuna of the second half of the 11th century suggests, firstly, the sacral significance of lunate pendants as heathen amulets in the earliest period and, secondly, the possible loss of their sacral meaning by the early 12th century. Perhaps, since the 12th century, lunate pendants became ordinary female ornaments having lost their sacral function. As it seems, already as early as in the late 12th — beginning of the 13th century, they were possibly considered by the urban residents as Christian amulets and were connected with the cult of the Mother of God.