Золотоордынский погребальный комплекс с зеркалом с изображением сфинксов на Нижнем Днестре
Golden Horde Grave with a Mirror with the Image of Sphinxes in the Lower Dniester Region

Author(s): Maksym V. Kvitnytskyi, Nicolai P. Telnov, Sergey D. Lysenko, Sergey N. Razumov, Vitalii S. Sinika
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Lower Dniester region; Golden Horde; nomad grave; mirror with Sphinxes; Al-Burāq; Khadjibey
Summary/Abstract: In 2018, the Dniester archaeological expedition of the Pridnestrovian State University studied a group of nomadic burials of the Golden Horde time near Glinoe village, Slobodzeya district, on the left bank of the Lower Dniester. One complex stands out, from which the finds of a bronze mirror with the image of two mythical creatures (sphinxes) and an earring in the form of a question mark originate. Both finds are extraordinary among the nomadic antiquities of the Golden Horde time. Analogies to the mirror with the image of Sphinxes were not previously known in the North-Western Black Sea region. An earring in the form of a question mark is a new type of such items, demonstrating the evolution of jewelry with appearance of such innovations as tacking dead bandlets for inserts. The date of the burial was determined within the second half of the 14th — the beginning of the 15th century. The peculiarities of the burial rite make it possible to attribute the complex to representatives of the ruling nomadic group. A study of the dynamics of historical processes that took place in the region during the period of the Golden Horde domination suggests that the grave belonged to a representative of a group of nomads from the suite of Lord Khadjibey.

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