A lunula (pl. lunulae) was a crescent moon shaped pendant worn by girls in ancient Rome. Girls ideally wore them as an apotropaic amulet, the equivalent...

Look up lunula or lúnula in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lunula (Latin for "little moon") may refer to: Lunula (amulet), a Roman amulet worn by girls...

qualities. Children wore bullas and lunulas, and could be protected by amulet-chains known as Crepundia. Metal amulets in the form of flat sheets made of...

A Roman girl did not wear a bulla per se, but another kind of amulet called a lunula, until the eve of her marriage, when it was removed along with her...

belief in the evil eye among humans has existed since prehistory, and amulets to protect against it have been found dating to about 5,000 years ago....

a small pebble, together described as crepundia by the excavators. Lunula (amulet) Magic in the Greco-Roman world "RE: Crepundia" (in German). Retrieved...

displayed with other Bronze Age objects such as the Mold Gold Cape. Torc Gold lunula Gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles "BULLA". Portable Antiquities...

against the evil eye include the nazar amulet, itself a representation of an eye, and the hamsa, a hand-shaped amulet. Older iterations of the symbol were...

necklaces following the plate and spacer design may have been based on Gold lunula. During the Iron Age jet went out of fashion until the early 3rd century...

the neck; the equivalent for girls seems to have been a crescent-shaped lunula, though this makes only rare appearances in Roman art. The toga praetexta...