Неординарный сарматский комплекс из окрестностей Тирасполя на левобережье Нижнего Днестра
Аn Extraordinary Sarmatian Complex in the Vicinity of Tiraspol on the Left Bank of the Lower Dniester

Summary/Abstract: In 2014, on the left bank of the Lower Dniester in the vicinity of Tiraspol a barrow was investigated with a single Sarmatian burial made in the pit. Despite devastation, some expressive grave goods were found — ceramic pottery imports (three-handle bowl, “pyxes”, fragments of the late Heraclean amphorae), a silver buckle and others.Wheel-made three-handle vessel has no analogies in the Sarmatian burials of the North-Western Black Sea littoral and it is a Carpian import, as well as is another wheel-made vessel with preserved lid and a fragment of a cup’s rim. Similar lids are well known on Carpian sites and/or sites of free Dacians on the territory of the Romanian Moldova. Fragments of a late Heraclean amphora were also found in the burial.A silver buckle with all-in-one frame and plate is of particular interest. Similar products until now have not been met in the Sarmatian burials of the North-West Black Sea littoral. The closest analogy to this buckle is known on the necropolis of Kobyakovo settlement on the right bank of the Lower Don.Taking into account the dating of these finds we have enough basis to date the construction of the barrow by the second half of the second century AD. Dimensions of the funerary construction and a set of accompanying inventory indicate that the barrow was built to bury a Sarmatian nobleman.

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