Temporal rings

This is the earring-pendant in the form of a crescent moon with biconical beads on the horns. Its surface is ornamented with tiny grains of gold. A star pendant is attached to its lower edge. This pendant has a convex hemispherical central part decorated with grained triangles and triangular grained rays.
Such jewelry was attached to the headdress, woven into hair, and could probably be worn in the ears.
Prototypes of these ornaments can be found in provincial-Byzantine jewelry art. Soldered star earrings from the island of Sicily spread to the Danube and the Balkans in the 6th – early 7th centuries. Later, soldered earrings were replaced by stamped and cast models. At the end of the 7th – beginning of the 8th century the fashion for these ornaments also appeared in the Dnipro region, possibly with Slavic immigrants from the Balkans. There is an assumption that raw materials for their manufacture also came from the Danube.
The treasure was accidentally plowed up, but excavations were carried out at the site of the find, which revealed the remains of an ancient Slavic settlement. In the end archaeologists generally managed to find and collect gold and silver pendants, bracelets, neck gryvnas, fibulas, belt ornaments, and numerous cowrie shells from the locals. Contents of the treasure were in use for a long time, which is evidenced by their worn state and marks of repair on some of them.