АПЛИКАЦИИ КЪМ КОМПОЗИТНИ РИЗНИЦИ В ГРОБНИ КОМПЛЕКСИ ОТ РАННАТА ЕЛИНИСТИЧЕСКА ЕПОХА
APPLIQUES TO COMPOSITE CORSLETS FROM EARLY HELLENISTIC BURIAL COMPLEXES

Summary/Abstract: The article examines rich burial complexes from the early Hellenistic era in Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece, in which breastplates of the „Mezek“ type and the „Golyama Kosmatka“ type were found. In most of them, among other finds, round appliques of gold or silver, in the shape of a rosette or a lion‘s head with a hole in the middle, as well as gold or silver rings, were found. There are parrallels between images of warriors dressed in composite corslet on murals and mosaics, as well as preserved sets of appliques on iron cuirasses from Vergina, Agios Athanasios, Prodromi and Berdyanka, which confirm the place and function of these appliques as part of composite corslet. The collected data allows us to express the thesis that rich grave burials during the early Hellenistic era typically featured a parade breastplate with composite corslet placed in a set, the decorative appliques of which survive to reach us.

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