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# Wooden cabinet with a child's necklace of crepundia amulets found in a house in central Pompeii
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-odnom-iz-domov-v-tsentre-pompei-obnaruzhili-dereviannyi-shkaf/
- Published: 2026-10-31T15:57:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-31T16:10:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Mores

In one of the houses in the centre of Pompeii a wooden wardrobe has been discovered. Inscriptions in the house suggest that it belonged to a Roman by the name of Cornelius Maximus. The house stands on one of the main streets of Pompeii.

The researchers established that, before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, the wardrobe had held a necklace of at least 24 amulets made of bone, glass paste, fired clay and rock crystal. The Romans called such small pendants and rattles, which children wore for protection, crepundia. Some of the pendants bear images of the gods Bes and Mercury, while others take the form of miniature hands, feet, pine cones and bunches of grapes.

The archaeologists have surmised that the ornament was worn by a child. The pendants rattled as the wearer moved, and this sound may have helped adults to keep track of the little one's whereabouts.

Besides the necklace, the archaeologists found in the wardrobe a pair of tweezers, a small glass flask for perfume or ointment, an incense burner, a cooking vessel and other vessels of bronze, glass and ceramic. Lead weights lay in a wooden box, and the researchers believe that the household used them in trade. A small wicker basket contained 38 bronze coins.

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