«Princely» costume with gold appliques the period of the Great migration

Female costume with gold appliques in geometric shapes is typical of the barbarian aristocracy during the Hunnic period (end of the 4 th to the mid 5 th cc.). The finds originate from the territory of the Western Roman Empire and also European Barbaricum. Gold appliques were well-known in the 1 st-3 rd centuries from burials of the Sarmatian-Alanian nobility, yet they disappear in the steppes in the 3 rd-4 th centuries and survive in the post-Roman period only in the Cimmerian Bosporus. Costumes with gold appliques from the period of the Great Migration of the Peoples can be traced back to the North Pontic region and can be associated in particular with the culture of the settled population in Late Classical centres such as the Cimmerian Bosporus and Tanais. At that time they were used to a lesser extent by the barbarians from the steppes to the North of the Black Sea, the Huns and the Alans. Those who spread this Pontic fashion in Western and Central Europe were East-European barbarians and also perhaps those who had previously lived in the Late Classical cities of the North Pontic region.