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Scythian Hoard from Debaltsevo

Summary/Abstract: In 1905, a hoard was discovered near the Debaltsevo railway station in the Middle Donets region consisting of two bronze cauldrons, objects of horse harness (three pairs of iron bits, one iron cheek-piece, a pair of iron snaffle rings, four bronze ring-shaped plaques, a bronze frontlet) and a golden fibula. Analysis of these finds and their comparison with direct analogies from the Scythian funerary complexes from the North Black Sea littoral allows us to attribute deposition of the Debaltsevo hoard to the mid. 3rd century BC. Undoubtedly, it refers to the Scythian archaeological culture, as well as similar “odd complexes” of 3rd—2nd centuries BC found in the south of Eastern Europe.

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