Gold necklaces of the Hun period of the Granada-Albaicin type in the North Pontic region

The paper examines gold jewelry which got its name after the Albaicin district in Granada in Southern Spain where the first example of the jewelry of this type was found. Currently all known necklaces of the Granada-Albaicin type, with the exception of the first find in Spain, have their origins in the North Pontic region. The necklaces are made up of three elements, namely, cylindrical flattened beads, lunulae, and rhomboid distributers which, when put together, form a pectoral. Judging by the geographical concentration in the North Pontic region, necklaces of the Granada-Albaicin type are an element of the local material culture of sedentary population. Most likely, these necklaces as a specific type of jewelry appeared in the North Pontic zone in the Late Classical period. Given a consistent composition of the elements, we can assume that these items dating to the end of the 4h - start/first half of the 5th centuries, i. e. the Hun period, were distributed as readymade pieces.