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Amulets are objects worn or carried on the person or placed at the location of the desired magical effect. Their appeal lies in the belief that certain objects have the power to protect, heal, or assist those who carry them, due to the material they are made from, their shape, decoration, inscription and their symbolic or religious associations, or the rituals involved in their creation. In Mycenaean Greece, protective properties have been attributed to several objects of personal adornment, most of which have been uncovered in funerary contexts. The identification of an object as an amulet is usually based on the iconography, symbolism, material, shape and exotic quality of the object. Thus, protective properties have been applied to beads of particular colours, materials and shapes (such as the figure-of-eight shape, a symbol of a female warrior deity that would presumably literally shield the wearer from harm). Red carnelian seems to have been particularly associated with children, as iconographic representations and evidence from funerary contexts suggest. Other shapes, such as the crescent in the form of a pendant, might also have had protective qualities for the Mycenaeans, particularly women, based on its association with the lunar phases and with notions of fertility and child rearing. Inscribed objects and objects with intelligible text reminiscent of the practice during Antiquity to inscribe amulets with repetitive and nonsensical invocations as some type of exorcism, though rare, also occur in Mycenaean Greece.