Amulet originally discovered near the Roemer Platz in the center of modern Frankfurt-am-Main. In the middle of the third century AD when it dates from, this would have been very much part of the Roman empire. The limes, or limits, of the empire were several kilometers north of modern Fft, in the Taunus hills, and the border ditches can still be seen in the woods there today. By 260 AD, the Romans had retreated back to the other side of the Rhein river, ceding this territory to Barbarians until 1945 when the Americans controlled it.