Работы а.а. матвеева 1890 года у Aккермана по поручению императорской археологической комиссии: разведки, раскопки, изучение памятника с латинской надписью
A.A. Matveev’s works in 1890 in the vicinity of Akkerman at the instruction of Imperial Archaeological Commission: surveys, excavations, investigation of the ancient plate with a Latin inscription

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the collaboration of Anton A. Matveev with the Imperial Archaeological Commission, which took place in 1889-1890. Its circumstances are described in files “On the excavations of A.A. Matveev in Bessarabia Governorate” and “On the discovery of an ancient plate with a Latin inscription in the village of Budaki, Akkerman Uyezd, Bessarabia Governorate”, which are held in the Department of Manuscripts of the Scientific Archive of the IHMC RAS. The analysis of the data made it possible to significantly supplement the historiography of the archeology of Southern Bessarabia. Anton A. Matveev studied and introduced into scholarly discourse the first ancient plate with the Latin inscription of Tyras, discovered at the Necropolis of the city. Due to some circumstances, this inscription fell out of the scholars’ scope for some time. Now its localization in the fortress of Akkerman is established. The first photograph of the inscription was made already in 1890 by Odessa photographer I. Polnomochny and is published here for the first time. Moreover, Anton A. Matveev attempted to develop kurganography studies in the region. He excavated a kurgan and studied two burials in it: one of the developed stages of the Yamnaya culture and one of late nomadic origin. He was the first to survey large territory specifically for kurgans and to elaborate a map of them. In fact, he studied and recorded the “kurgan landscape” of the region for the first time in borders of the Akkerman Uyezd of the day. The new, previously unknown data gathered by Anton A. Matveev and published here, may serve to reconstruct the locations and topography of ancient kurgans in the south of Bessarabia at the end of the 19th c.

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