Бронзовое блюдо с позолотой из Второго Караванского кургана раннескифской поры (Украинская Левобережная Лесостепь)
Bronze plate with golding from the Second Karavan barrow of the early Scythian period (Ukrainian Left-Bank Forest-Steppe)

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to a unique find of Near Asian origin - a bronze plate with chased ornamentation and gilding, found in the Scythian archaic barrow № 2 near the Karavan village, near the town of Lyubotin, Kharkiv region (Seversky Donets basin). We had an opportunity to conduct an independent study of this product. There are several opinions about the place of manufacture of this plate. Some authors associated the Karavan plate with Achaemenid Iran and dated by the 7th-6th centuries BC. Others saw in it, not without reason, Assyrian products, determining the time of the product by the 9th-8th or the 3rd quarter of the 8th - early 7th centuries BC. We believe that the opinion about the Assyrian roots of this product is quite convincing. According to the Karavan plate’s closest analogy - in terms of the ornament- on the bronze-based pix from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, we find it possible to extend the chronological framework of the production of the plate in Assyria to the whole 7th century BC.

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