Византийский меч с территории Украины / Byzantine sword from the territory of Ukraine (original) (raw)
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Баранов Г.В. Новая находка перекрестья и навершия рукояти византийского меча с территории Черкасского района Черкасской области Украины // Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма. Вып. 7. – Симферополь-Тюмень, 2015. – С. 87-105.
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.
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A. V. Plokhov. Buckle of the ‘Byzantine’ type from the village of Lyubytino in Middle Pomostye This article concerns an early mediaeval cast buckle with a nearly rectangular frame and semi-oval plate. The object originates from an illegal excavation of kurgans near the village of Lyubytino. This study considers available shape and decoration parallels of this find. Quite a number of construction features are believed to be characteristic of production of Byzantine masters whereas the ornamental composition on the plate seems to pertain to the ‘Khazarian’ variant of plant decoration. A combination of this kind suggests that this object was manufactured in a Crimean workshop concerned with production of composite belts for the elite of the Khazar Khaganate. Analysis of the available data allows us to limit the period of the use of the buckle from Middle Pomostye to the 730s–770s AD. Occurrence of this object far to the north from the main area of distribution of the ‘Early Saltovo’ belt fittings evidently was linked with the formation of the Baltic-Volga trade route. Keywords: early mediaeval archaeology, buckle of the ‘Byzantine group’, belt fittings, Vrap–Erseke type, Saltovo-Mayatskaya culture, Nevolino culture, Volga route, Middle Pomostye.
Скіфський меч зі Слов'янська (Scythian sword from Sloviansk)
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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
Dobrudzha, 2017
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Клинковое оружие из некрополя Артющенко-2 / Blade Weapon from the Necropolis of Artyuschenko-2
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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.
МИКЕНСКИ МАЧ ИЗ ОКОЛИНЕ АЛЕКСИНЦА / Mycenaean Sword from Aleksinac (Serbia)
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This Paper presents the remarkable finding of a bronze sword from the vicinity of Aleksinac, the so-called Mycenaean-type rapier. Sword has part of the handle, shoulders and upper half of the blade. Cracks and other minor damages are not recent, and the blade is slightly bent. Preserved length: 27,5 cm, blade with: 1,8 cm, handle with: 7,7 cm. Although we can find similarities with pieces from the original Mycenaean territories, it seems that the rapier from Aleksinac is most similar to the swords from the Balkan heartland, particularly with pieces from the Tetovo region, two Iglarevo swords and a few specimens from modern Bulgaria, Albania and Greece. Chronologically, we can place the sword from Aleksinac in Late Helladic IIIA period (1400 BC, Br C2-D). This sword presents evidence for the relationship between the central Balkans region and the Aegean world during this period and confirms the earlier hypothesis about the local workshop for the production of Mycenaean-like weapons.