The paper is devoted to the cross-guard of the fragmentary dagger found in 1984 in the princely nomad burial near the village of Kosika in the Lower Volga area, belonging to the type of ceremonial daggers which were widespread in Eurasia in the 1st century BC-1st century AD and which became one of the insignia of power as testified by the finds in the princely nomadic burials and depictions on the royal figures on the stelae from Commagene. The dated (year 238) dotted inscription preserved on the gold overlay of the cross-guard found by one of the authors in 2015 and completely cleaned from the iron oxides in 2017 contains an indication of the craftsmen and the weight of gold, confirmed by the eklogistes, which means estimated on the highest state level. The inscription allows us to suggest, with high degree of probability, that the dagger may have been manufactured either as a tax payment of the corporation to the state or rather was ordered by a king to serve as a gift to an equal person. Moreover, the analysis of the inscription suggests that the object could have been made in Asia Minor, perhaps in Commagene, in 74 BC (that means the date falls in the Seleucid era), rather than in 59 BC, because the existence of the eklogistes in the Pontic Kingdom has not been confirmed by any documents. This date corresponds well to the archaeological date of the burial in Kosika to the early third quarter of the 1st century BC and the already published hypothesis, that the deceased could have been a participant of the Asia Minor campaign of the Bosporan King Pharnakes in 49-47 BC.

该文件专门针对1984年在下伏尔加河地区Kosika村附近的王子游牧墓葬中发现的碎片匕首的交叉防护，属于公元前1世纪在欧亚大陆广泛使用的礼仪匕首的类型-公元1世纪，它成为权力的象征之一，这是从游牧民族的葬礼中发现的，以及对Commagene碑上皇家人物的描绘所证明的。一位作者在2015年发现的，在十字防护装置的金色覆盖物上保留了带日期的日期（238年），并在2017年将其完全从氧化铁上清除了，这表明工匠和黄金的重量已得到证实。eklogistes，表示在最高状态级别上估算。铭文使我们有很高的可能性暗示，匕首可能是作为公司向国家缴纳的税款而制造的，或者是由国王下令作为向平等的人赠送的礼物。此外，对铭文的分析表明，该物体可能是在小亚细亚（也许是在Commagene）于公元前74年制造的（这意味着日期属于塞琉古时代），而不是在公元前59年制造的，因为存在eklogistes在庞蒂克王国尚未得到任何文件的确认。此日期与公元前1世纪早期第三季度的科西卡埋葬的考古日期非常吻合以及已经发表的假说，死者可能是公元前49-47年博斯普兰国王法尔内克（Asian Minor）的亚洲小规模运动的参与者。