МИКЕНСКИ МАЧ ИЗ ОКОЛИНЕ АЛЕКСИНЦА / Mycenaean Sword from Aleksinac (Serbia) (original) (raw)
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Скіфський меч зі Слов'янська (Scythian sword from Sloviansk)
2019
Recently new chance find of the Scythian long sword was presented in the Sloviansk regional museum. Thanks to attention of activists and officials, it was restored in a proper manner. The sword has zoomorphic antenna pommel, triangular crossguard and long blade with grooves. Due to analogies from the burials, this sword dates by the middle — late 5th century BC. Similar finds are known from Beresniahy, barrow 4, Aktash, barrow 48 and others. This period was time of permanent conflicts and in-stability in Northern Black Sea region. For example, such prominent sites as Motronyn and Western Bilsk hillforts became desolate. It is interesting that range of 5th century BC bladed weapon was very wide. At the same time, Sloviansk region was sparsely populated frontier of the Scythian culture. However, there are known some individual weapon chance finds and separated burials. They are located near the watershed rout that later was named Muravskii way. We can assume that they mark area of nomad’s strategic interests and points of clashes for the salt lakes and fertile floodplains in the Siverskii Dinets basin. In addition, it should be noted that hypothesis about chance finds of swords as remains of Ares’s altar has no reliable evidences
Srednjovekovni mač iz Grabovca kod Trstenika (Medieval Sword from Grabovac, near Trstenik)
Zbornik Narodnog muzeja Srbije XXVI - 1, 2023
An important material testimony of the medieval past of the region of Trstenik, unknown to the general and scientific public so far, is the accidental finding of a partially damaged medieval sword. It was discovered in the 1970s during gravel excavation on the left bank of the Zapadna Morava river in the area of the village of Grabovac, near Trstenik. This significant finding most probably came to the Museum Collection of the People’s University of Trstenik as a gift in the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, where it is still kept today under inv. У–1777. The fragmented sword from Grabovac was forged from iron and has a preserved weight of 0.593 kg. Its cutting edge and blade are severely damaged by corrosion. The tip of the blade is missing, and the breaking point was sanded down and reshaped at a later point, hence, it is not possible to determine whether the blade was broken during the time when the sword was in use or after being discovered.
Клинковое оружие из некрополя Артющенко-2 / Blade Weapon from the Necropolis of Artyuschenko-2
Древности Боспора, 2010
Voroshilov А.N., Kashaev S.V. Blade Weapon from the Necropolis of Artyuschenko-2 The article presents the publication of the blade weapon of the 5th century BC from the necropolis of Artyuschenko-2. The weapon regarded is represented with three main categories: akinakes, swords of Sindian-Meotian type and battle knives. In the cemetery no sword or dagger of the traditional Greek forms has been revealed. Of great importance is the dating of the collection elaborated on the basis of the inventory of burials with blades. The warriors’ weapon set with a blade and possible manner of its carrying are regarded. The tradition of use of blade weapon of Scythian type — akinakes, widely represented in the burials of the first half of the 5th century BC, abruptly ceased at the end of the century. Considerable differences between the weapon of Sindian-Meothian type of the first half of the 5th century BC and that of the late 5th — early 6th centuries BC are pointed out. Against the background of paucity and poor preservation of archaeological sources concerning the warfare of Cimmerian Bosporus the publication of new finds of weaponry is of special actuality and importance.
Желязна глава на боздуган от Петричко (An iron mace head from the Petrich area)
- In: Military campaigns, weaponry and military equipment (Antiquity and Middle Ages) (Acta Musei Varnaensis X – 2), 2018
The mace (fig. 1 1-3) has been taken to the Petrich Municipal Historical Museum, Blagoevgrad District, Bulgaria, by the police, but it can still be assumed to originate in the region of the Middle Struma and in particular from the territory of today's municipality of Petrich. It is made of iron alloy, but at present it is in poor condition as is severely corroded. Its general form can be described as nearly spherical. In the middle part of its body, there are three rows with seven knobs in each row. According to the available archaeological data, this type can be dated within the 11th – 15th c. Among the fine arts artifacts of the 11th – 12th c. there is a group of maces, to which the find in question belongs. However, this does not gives us the exact time of type VIII appearance. The typological features provide a relatively more precise date. Based especially on them, the appearance and main distribution of type VIII maces may be dated to the 12th – 13th c. Most likely the mace from Petrich was in use during this particular period. Compared to other types of maces, the distribution of type VIII is relatively poor. Almost all of the known specimens come from the Balkans. This fact, as well as the suggested date of main distribution in the 12th – 13th c., makes it possible to assume that type VIII was produced and used mainly in the Balkans, initially in Byzantium and later in the remaining countries of the peninsula.
Tyragetia, 2014
Papers devoted to the typology of certain categories of the material culture need the close cooperation with the local schemes. A change of researching “optics” is likely to have a positive effect on the process of studiing the general trends in the material, if this process of research is closely linked with the base of any typological constructions — with the spatial and chronological relations analysis. Besides the publication of new stray finds and partial republication of already known finds from the burial complexes, the main goal of this work is the checking of certain typological tendentions of such category of Scythian culture as akinakai (Scythian swords and daggers) of the Carpathian-Dniester region. A geographical division of Carpathian-Dniester region is proposed: Middle Dniester (Bukovinian) group, Eastern Carpathian (Neamţ) group, Siret-Dniester (Moldavian) group, Lower Dniester and Lower Danube groups. Chronologically, the massive of akinakai of Carpathian-Dniester region could be divided into three groups: Early Scythian (650—550 BC), Middle Scythian (550—450 BC) and Classic Scythian (450—300 BC). The following trends connected with Scythian swords and daggers were noticed: Early Scythian burials with akinakai concentrate in Bukovina and strayfinds in Moldova, Middle Scythian burials — are grouping in Moldavian and the strayfinds — in Neamţ group, and the Classical Scythian burials with akinakai are presented only in Lower Dnister and Lower Danube groups.
The article is dedicated to the sword’s scabbard chape found at the village of Staraya Belitsa in the vicinity of Gomel on the territory of the identified Ancient Rus’ settlement. It belongs to a rare group of high cast chapes dating from the end of the 10th – the first half of the 11th century, probably produced in Ancient Rus’. A significant area of the settlement, a large number of barrows that used to be nearby and the find of the sword’s scabbard chape may indicate that in the immediate vicinity of the chronicles' Gomiy near the village of Staraya Belitsa, there used to be a settlement that was controlled by the representatives of the princely administration.
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The article describes for the first time a new find of a Byzantine sword-guard and a pommel in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. The items are in a good state of preservation and are made of a non-ferrous metal (bronze?). The sword-guard belongs to the Garabonc type of swords proposed by the Bulgarian researcher Valery Yotov. As was found out, the sword-guard from Cherkasy Oblast is almost identical to sword-guards that are pictured on drawings in the Paris manuscript of Homilies of St. Gregory of Nazianzus (BNF, Grec 510). This allows to date the sword-guard to the last quarter of the 9th century. The sword-guard from Cherkasy Oblast that has almost exact analogies on Byzantine drawings is an important link between monuments of Byzantine visual arts and archeological materials which proves the Byzantine origin of this type of artifacts.