Burial monuments of the second-third quarter of the 4th c. BC near the Adzhider fortress on the bank of the Dniester estuary Cover Image

Погребальные памятники второй-третьей четверти IV в. до РХ у Аджидерской крепости на берегу Днестровского лимана
Burial monuments of the second-third quarter of the 4th c. BC near the Adzhider fortress on the bank of the Dniester estuary

Author(s): Igor V. Sapozhnykov, Alexandr Sinelnikov
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Ancient World, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural al Academiei de Științe a Moldovei
Keywords: bank of the Dniester estuary; Adzhider fortress; settlement Ovidiopol; excavations in 2021; mound; ritual and memorial grounds; second-third quarter of the 4th c. BC; Greek colonists;

Summary/Abstract: Funeral monuments of the considered period are represented in the basin of the Dniester Estuary mainly by under-kurgan and soil graves of Greek colonists and Scythians. They were found in separate burial mounds and in burial grounds near settlements. Bound complexes of this type and time have been studied mainly on the left bank of the estuary. Excavations in 2021 in Ovidiopol revealed new facts that allow us to speak about another bush of monuments of the second or third quarter of the 4th century BC. It includes a settlement, ritual and memorial grounds and burials in mounds, some of which could have been discovered as early as the 1790s during the construction of the Adzhider fortress. The article is devoted to the publication of these materials, as well as to the analysis, interpretation and dating of the complex of funerary monuments found on the western outskirts of Ovidiopol.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 100-117
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Russian
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