Исследование позднеантичного некрополя у с. Курское в Юго-Восточном Крыму
A Study of the Late Antique Necropolis at the Village Kurskoe in the South-Eastern Crimea

Summary/Abstract: The article narrates the results of research on a grave yard of III – IV cc. at the village Kurskoe in the eastern part of the piedmont Crimea.The burial features on this necropolis are represented by tombs and niche graves. The grave goods in female burials in niches enable dating them by III c. The funeral rite finds analogues among the traditions of the Sarmatised population of the central zones of Crimean Scythia and Bosporus.The male burials discovered in the central part of the grave yard are dated by the last third of III – first half of IV cc. AD. Their grave goods reflect changes in material culture of the population of piedmont Crimea, caused by the Gothic wars.Though all tombs of the studied necropolis were devastated, the fragmented goods enable their dating by the late III-IV cc. AD. The funeral rite in this period is characterised by features traditionally connected with the Sarmatian-Alan world.

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