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Building the Lesser Caucasus Monumental Landscape during the Bronze Age: Life and Death on the Javakheti Plateau (Georgia) Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Paolo Biagi
Surveys carried out in the Javakheti Plateau during the last decade have improved our knowledge of the Bronze Age archaeology of this highland zone of the Lesser Caucasus of Georgia. Surveys have been conducted all over the area surrounding the Mt. Chikiani volcano, along the southern terraces of the Tsalka Reservoir, and some of the north-western slopes of Mt. Paravani. All these territories have
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A Hoard of Late Bosporan Staters from the Sixth-Century Fire Layer in Phanagoria Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Mikhail Abramzon, Sergey Ostapenko
The paper discusses a hoard of Late Bosporan staters found in the sixth-century fire layer in Phanagoria. A purse with 82 coins was hidden in the neck of a Pontic Opaiţ B–1b amphora. The hoard contains staters of Thothorses, Rhadamsades, and Rhescuporis VI, as well as a Panticapaean tetrachalkos of Asander’s time. The conflagration layer is associated with the report of Procopius of Caesarea (Procop
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Khūrigān: a Recently Discovered Post-Achaemanid Rock-Cut Tomb near Naqsh-e Rostam, Iran Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Ehsan Ahmadinya, Habib Emadi
Near the northwestern-southeastern foothills of the Marvdasht plain in Fars province, lie a range of ancient necropoleis which date from the reign of Darius I, the Achaemenid king and until the first century after the Muslim conquest. The well-known necropoleis of Naqsh-e Rostam and Persepolis have the most complex tombs among them. However, there are other burials in this region, although smaller
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Kujūla Kadphises’ “Roman” Coin: an Issue for Merchants Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Alessandro Magnani
The paper studies a copper coin type issued during the reign of the Kuṣāṇ king Kujūla Kadphises (ca. 40/50–90 AD) called “Roman Emperor Type”. These coins, dated towards the end of the first century AD, present on the obverse the image of a ruler recalling the imperial iconography of the Julio-Claudian period, and on the reverse Kujūla himself seated. The coin is a real innovation in the history of
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New Hellenistic Coin Finds from the Baysun and Kugitang Piedmonts, Southern Uzbekistan (season 2018) Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Ladislav Stančo, Shapulat Shaydullaev, Jiří Militký, Matěj Kmošek, Tomáš Bek
The article presents assemblage of Seleucid and Greco-Bactrian coins found by the Czech-Uzbek archaeological expedition in the frame of a sampling metal detector survey in the upper reaches of Sherabad Darya, from the sites of the Darband Wall, Daganajam, Kurganzol and Iskandar Tepa in 2018. Sixteen specimens, of both silver and copper alloys, which were determined including a very rare Seleukos I
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Wine Cups and the Early Chronology of Apollonia Pontica: Archaic Pottery from the Island of St. Kirik Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Margarit Damyanov
In the last 15 years, the excavations at the island of St. Kirik offshore from Sozopol (ancient Apollonia Pontica) on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast have yielded thousands of fragments of Archaic Greek pottery, including a sizeable collection of drinking cups from the last decades of the 7th and the early 6th centuries BC – North Ionian hemispherical cups (“bird bowls”, “meander bowls”, etc.) and early
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Attic Black-Glazed Plates from Olbia Pontica Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Iryna Chechulina
Attic black-glazed ware is undoubtedly a common material in the Northern Black Sea region. The majority of such finds can provide information for a profound understanding of ancient materials. Together with pottery decoration, the morphology of forms not only allows to determine the most correct dating for the particular ware, but also to identify dates for closed archaeological complexes and larger
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East Greek Pottery from the Excavations of the Settlement Balan in Abkhazia Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Roman Stoyanov
The article presents a preliminary publication of the collection of Eastern Greek pottery found during the excavations at the ancient settlement Balan, the Ochamchira region of Abkhazia in 2017–2022. The published material is a part of the finds from a complex of ashy soil and a platform with a fireplace discovered at the site. The collection consists of fragments of vessels for storing and drinking
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A New Greek Graffito from the Bilsk Hillfort and Greek Graffiti in Scythian Contexts Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Irene Polinskaya, Sergey Skory
The article presents a recent find of a potsherd, bearing an ancient Greek graffito, reported from the area of the Bilsk Hillfort. The area of discovery, considered by some archaeologists to be the city of Gelonos (Hdt. 4.108), makes this otherwise ordinary graffito potentially significant. The authors discuss the historical, archaeological, and epigraphic contexts of the find and possible scenarios
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Persepolis West: Evidence for a Pigment Production Site and Its Connections with Achaemenid Royal-Official Buildings Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Emad Matin
This paper aims at elaborating the potential existence of craft production site(s) for manufacturing the colouring materials in the Persepolis area. In doing so, the paper discusses the colour pigments and elements used for decorating the Achaemenid royal-official buildings, the ancient contexts in which raw materials for colouring have been discovered and the parts of the Persepolis area in which
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Roman Amphorae from Gonio (Apsaros), 1st–3rd Centuries AD Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Paulina Komar
This paper presents the first study of the Roman period amphorae which were discovered by the Gonio-Apsaros Polish-Georgian Expedition at the Roman fort of Apsaros (modern Gonio, Georgia) between 2014 and 2019. Six excavation seasons provided over a thousand diagnostic fragments of both locally produced and imported transport containers, with a considerable number of these dating to between the 1st
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Coin Assemblages in Ancient Burials: Statement of the Problem Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Andrey E. Tereshchenko
The present work is dedicated to the analysis of possible meanings of monetary offerings in ancient burial practice. It is clear from archaeological data that the placement of money in a grave was not an essential component of the funeral ceremony; therefore, the comparative variety of versions of this ritual is not surprising: the number and value of coins in burials varies rather widely. The author
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First Millennium Urbanism in Central Asia: Typology and Evolution of Dzhety-asar Settlements Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Martin Goffriller, Irina Arzhantseva, Heinrich Härke
Despite its apparent size and length of its existence, the Dzhety-asar culture of Kazakhstan remains one of the great unknowns of Central Asian archaeology, comprising, as it did, several dozen now-ruined settlements with an almost thousand-year long occupational history. First settled around the 1st century BC and gradually abandoned in the second half of the 1st millennium AD, the Dzhety-asar towns
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The Great Mother Goddess on the Thracian Coast of Pontos Euxeinos: Forms and Traditions Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Dobrinka Chiekova
This paper focuses on the worship of the Mother Goddess in the Greek colonies on the west coast of the Black Sea from the Archaic to the Roman period. The epigraphic and the archaeological evidence demonstrate the importance of the Milesian colonies in the spread of the cult. The political aspect of the Goddess’s personality is prominent and reminds of her Phrygian position. A Great Goddess very similar
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Ossuary Burials of the Sultan-uiz-dag. Some Considerations on the Relation between Archaeology and Vendīdād Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Michele Minardi
The archaeological exploration of the only mountain range of Karakalpakstan, the barren Sultan-uiz-dag/Sultan-uvais, resumed in 2017 after a hiatus of decades since its first archaeological valuation during Soviet times. This paper presents the preliminary results of the first fieldwork season, which focused on the south-eastern spur of the range. The presence of numerous ossuary burials on its summits
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Prestige Goods as Markers of Network Relations of the Volga-Don Élites (from the 3rd c. BC to the Mid-3rd c. AD) Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Valentina I. Mordvintseva
The article concerns the composition and the origin of prestige markers from burial contexts of the Volga-Don region in four chronological groups (3rd–2nd c. BC, 1st c. BC, 1st–mid-2nd c. AD, mid-2nd–mid-3rd c. AD). Certain ‘core features’ were noticed among male and female sets of prestige goods, which did not change with time, as well as other changing elements in each period. By the origin, the
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The Graffiti Marking Polis Ownership from the Excavations of Olbian Agora in the 1960s and 1970s Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Anastasia Bekhter, Yuliya Il’ina
The article publishes eleven graffiti from the Olbian Agora, marking pottery owned by the polis (Yu.G. Vinogradov has published photos of six objects). On one of the vessels the word πόλεως̣ is written in its full form, on the others it is represented by abbreviations ΠΟ and ΠΟΛΕ. The collection includes ten imported black-glazed vessels of Attic production (the location of four of them is currently
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The City Versus Its Suburb: The Spatial Development of Pontic Olbia Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Alla V. Buiskikh, Jochen Fornasier
This article is devoted to the urban space of Pontic Olbia – to the growth of its territory, and the emergence of its early defensive system consisting of earthworks with moats, which had surrounded the city as early as the Late Archaic period. Conclusions are drawn about the role of the settlement structure in the western part of the city, which had earlier been interpreted as Herodotus’ proasteion
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Hollow Ways near Tanais Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Gennady P. Garbuzov, Irina V. Tolochko
Two ancient roads have been revealed with the help of remote sensing data near Tanais, ancient Greek city in Southern Russia. These roads belong to the class of hollow ways which are often found in the vicinities of Greek settlements in the Northern Black Sea region. Very alike hollow ways were discovered in space photographs around the Bronze Age settlements in Upper Mesopotamia. It is assumed that
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Huns in the East: The Polychrome Style Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Aleksandr Kazakov, Olga Kazakova
The Great Migration period is closely connected with the culture of ancient multi- ethnic society known as the Huns. Although the Hunnic archaeology is well developed, there are still many issues to be solved. One of them is where was the eastern border of the Hunnic culture marking the areas of their influence. The article tries to answer the question and presents materials, which at present are the
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Long Knives of the Scythian Culture: Tool or Weapon? Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Oleksandr Shelekhan
The article examines Scythian long knives that are similar in length to double-edged daggers. Critically analysing the hypothesis which interprets these items as weapons, it shows that the difference between a fighting knife and utilitarian knife consists not in their measurements, but in their constructive features. In particular, long knives have much slimmer proportions, unlike daggers. They have
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Preliminary Results of Analysis of Osteological Material from the Polish-Ukrainian Excavations in Olbia (2016–2018) Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Alfred Twardecki, Yevheniia Yanish
The authors present an analysis of the bone material obtained during the excavations of the Polish-Ukrainian archaeological mission in Olbia in 2016–2018. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the chronologically homogeneous deposit of about 6,000 bones, which are mostly raw materials or semi-finished products and rarely the final products for a workshop producing bone tools. This analysis
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Cyclopean Fortresses, Royal Cities or Mountain Shelters? Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Vakhtang Licheli, Roberto Dan, Priscilla Vitolo, Tamar Chogovadze, Andrea Cesaretti, Tornike Chilingarashvili, Tommaso Saccone, Onofrio Gasparro
The present article is devoted to a new study of two archaeological complexes, Abuli and Shaori in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia, that are known in the research literature. The sites discussed in this article have been visited and studied multiple times during the first three years of activities in the region in the frame of the Georgian-Italian Samtskhe-Javakheti Project. They have been
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Etruscan Bucchero Pottery in the Northern Black Sea Littoral Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Alla V. Buiskikh, Alessandro Naso
Three Etruscan bucchero kantharoi have recently been found in the North Pontic settlements at modern-day Berezan island (ancient Borysthenes), and Taganrog (ancient Kremnoi), both Milesian foundations of the 7th century BC. Both centres yielded several vessels of Greek pottery dated from the early 7th century onwards. As the only finds of Etruscan bucchero in the Northern Black Sea area, the kantharoi
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Golden Jewellery of the Vodoslavka Scythian Burial-Ground of the Second and Third Quarters of the 4th Century BC Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Marina Daragan, Sergey Polin
The Scythian barrows investigated near Vodoslavka in the Sivash region form a tribal burial-ground for one of the groups of the steppe population dating from the second and third quarters of the 4th century BC. In several barrows of this Scythian burial-ground, which contained burials of representatives of the local élite, a spectacular and most unusual set of gold items was discovered. These items
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Historic Premise of the Silk Roads in the South Caucasus Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Salome Jamburia
In this article, I examine the evidence for the trade route coming into and passing through the South Caucasus in antiquity. The synthesis is undertaken in view of ancient literary sources, historical research and new archaeological evidence. The outcome reasserts the existence of the cross-border route in the South Caucasus. Further work should be undertaken to throw more light on the extent of this
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The Pectoral from Kosika and the Origin of the Scenes of Animal Combat in Graeco-Scythian Goldwork Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Mikhail Treister
This article concerns a gold pectoral found in burial No. 1/1984 in Kosika in the Lower Volga area. The destroyed burial was dated by us to the third quarter of the 1st century BC. Based on visual examination of the pectoral in 2015, an attempt is made to re-establish its history: to determine when it was created – no later than the first half of the 5th century BC – and when it was repaired and re-worked
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Back to the Iron Age Chronology in Southern Central Asia: From Yaz II to the Hellenistic Period Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Bertille Lyonnet, Michel Fontugne
The article reconsiders two major sites of the 1st millennium BC in southern Uzbekistan, Kyzyltepa and Kurganzol. It contests their recent dating – exclusively the Achaemenid and transitional Hellenistic period for the first one, and the end of the 4th c. BC for the second one – mainly based upon dendrochronological analyses relating the samples to the time of Alexander the Great’s conquest or slightly
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Metal Quivers from Western Asia Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Manuel Castelluccia
This paper presents a review of metal quivers, which belong to a category of metal objects found in Iron Age archaeological contexts in the Ancient Near East, especially in the variegate cultures living in the mountainous highlands bordering Mesopotamia. Each cultural sphere is considered separately, focusing on material brought to light during archaeological excavations. An analysis of different traditions
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Once More on the Dating of the “Royal” Five Brothers’ Burial Mound No. 8 Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Sergei Yu. Monakhov
Burial-mound No. 8 in the necropolis of the Elizavetovskoye fortified settlement. The dates assigned to 14 amphorae found in the dromos are constantly argued over by scholars. When traditional methods of chronology are used, it emerges that some of the amphorae should be assigned to the 350s BC, and others to the 330s–320s BC. Recently N.F. Fedoseev attempted to explain this difference in dating of
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Preliminary Report on Archaeological Excavations in Sophtades, Cyprus: Pre-Byzantine Pottery Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Vakhtang Licheli, Giorgi Gagoshidze, Merab Kasradze
The article is devoted to the materials found during the excavations of St. George Church located in the southern part of Cyprus, near the village of Softades. In the cultural layers inside of this church, pottery belonging to the Roman period, Iron Age and Late Bronze Age has been discovered. It is discussed in this article.
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Visitors to Leuke Island: Ancient Coins after Drawings by N.N. Murzakevich Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Mikhail Abramzon, Irina Tunkina
This article is the publication of the plates compiled by N.N. Murzakevich, secretary of the Odessa Society for History and Antiquities. It contains tracings of 241 Classical coins and lists of coin finds from the island of Fidonisi (known as Leuke in antiquity), which had been excavated in the 1840s and early 1850s. Recent data have led to a doubling of the list of Greek centres (up to 202) and the
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The Image of the Zoroastrian God Srōsh: New Elements Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Frantz Grenet, Michele Minardi
This paper presents new and decisive evidence relative to the identification of one of the colossal depictions of deities discovered by the Karakalpak-Australian Expedition (KAE) at Akchakhan-kala with the Avestan yazata Sraosha. Besides the therianthropic Sraošāvarez, the explicit Zoroastrian symbol that decorates the tunic of this god, new iconographic details are seen. One is the sraošō.caranā
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On the Iconography of the Potnia Theron in the North Pontic Region Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Roman V. Stoyanov
The article discusses one of the variants of the image of the tendril goddess (Rankenfrau) with the mask of a satyr recorded in depictions on plates found in Chersonesos Taurica, in the funerary complex within the Kul-Oba burial-mound and also in a burial-mound near the village of Ivanovskaya (Fig. 1–3). Examination of the context for each of the finds and also their comparison allows the assumption
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The Roman Citadel in Pontic Olbia Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Alla V. Buiskikh, Maria V. Novichenkova
This article treats the southern part of Pontic Olbia, where in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD internal fortifications were erected. The arrangement of the buildings there has been investigated and the lay-out of the structures excavated over the last forty years has been analysed. Individual finds have been examined and also the extent to which they correspond to the main elements in the material culture
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Scythian Burial-Mound 7 in the “Vodovod” Group in the Lower Reaches of the Dniester River Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Vitalii S. Sinika, Nikolai P. Telnov, Sergei D. Lysenko
Materials obtained during investigation of Scythian burial-mound 7 in the “Vodovod” group in 2017 near the village of Glinoye in the Slobozia District on the east bank of the Lower Dniester are published here for the first time. The burial-mound contained five burials – four in pits and one in a catacomb. The burials in pits had been deposited at the turn of the 4th century BC and the catacomb burial
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Seleukid Coins from the Collection of the State Historical Museum Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Svyatoslav V. Smirnov, Eugenii V. Zakharov
The present paper publishes the collection of Seleukid coins from the Numismatic Department of the State Historical Museum (Moscow). It contains 118 items of several Seleukid rulers ranging from Seleukos I to posthumous issues of Phillip I.
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Kent, Kazak dalasÿnÿn ortalÿgÿndagÿvkola dauirinin kalasÿ – Kent, the Bronze Age City in the Center of the Kazakh Steppes – Kent, gorod bronzovogo veka v tsentre kazakhskikh stepeï, written by Varfolomeev, V., Loman, V., Evdokimov, V. Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Gian Luca Bonora
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Die Proxenie als Instrument der „Aussenpolitik“ im Kontext der auswärtigen Beziehungen pontischer Staaten Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Victor Cojocaru
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“A Barbarian by Birth, Yet a Hellene in Everything Else”: The Image of a Pious Barbarian in the Works of Late Roman Pagans Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Mikhail A. Vedeshkin
The Christianisation of the Roman Empire in the 4th-5th centuries led to a blurring of the traditional ethnocultural dichotomy (Barbarians – Romans), and to the emergence of a new type of social division on the basis of religion: pagan – Christian. The present article is devoted to the analysis of the image of a “pious” (pagan) barbarian, formed in Late Antique pagan historiography. The conclusion
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Corpus of the Roman Finds in the European Barbaricum. Romania 1: An Overview of the 1st Century BC-1st Century AD Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Lavinia Grumeza
The goal of this paper is to present the Roman products found in Arad County (West Romania), to analyse the Roman-Dacians connections, and the avenues by which the Roman goods made their way into the Dacian world, west of the Carpathians. Excluding the coins, Italian goods are sporadically found in Dacian sites dating from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD: some fragmentary bronze and glass
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Cyprus as a Contact Zone in the 1st Millennium AD Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 John Lund
Using Cyprus as a case study, the present contribution applies a diachronic perspective to the notion of contact zones as a means to explore some of the implications of this concept for an island. The geographic distribution of ceramic imports to Cyprus during the 1st millennium reveals a fairly consistent pattern through time, which seems to be more or less similar to what has been suggested for earlier
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“The Grand Retinue” Phenomenon in Northern and Eastern Europe in the 10-11th Centuries Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Petr Stefanovich
The author summarizes evidence of large professional armies in the service of the rulers of early medieval polities in Northern and Eastern Europe. Following František Graus, the author refers to that institution as “grand retinue” (Czech velkodružina, German Staatsgefolge). The rulers maintained these troops mainly by paying in cash collected as tribute from the populace. The late 10th-early 11th-century
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Grenzland als Synergie- und Dysergiezone Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Pavel N. Donec
The author discusses reasons for the scientific interest on the definition of “border / borderland / boundary” in many research-fields, various types of which are described in the article. It is suggested that at least two of them – “threshold” and “mixed zone” – are significantly marked by processes of syn-/ and dysergy. For this reason, the category of “border / borderland / boundary” should be included
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The Impact of Power on Contact Zones and Receptivity Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Christoph Ulf
The concept of contacts zones, as developed in Ulf 2009, employs differentiating factors to embed the actors involved in the transfers of goods and ideas in their cultural and socio-political environments. Power exerted between people who transfer goods and ideas and those who receive them, is decisive for how receptivity is shaped by their recipients. To discover where power is situated in the complex
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Intellectual Innovations in Georgia (11th-9th Centuries BC): Excavations at Grakliani Hill Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Vakhtang Licheli
The multilayer archaeological site Grakliani hill is located in one of the main contact zones of Transcaucasia. It shows a very intensive level of communication with other cultures from the 2nd millenium BC till the 3rd century BC and a high level of development of Kartli (Iberia Caucasica) society. Two inscriptions made in unknown script (probably a local version of Aramaic script) were discovered
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Konzepte CONTACT ZONE und BORDER AREA in der Archäologie: Linguo-semiotische Opposition oder idealtypische Konstrukte? Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Nataliya Petlyuchenko
The article provides results of a cognitive analysis into the conceptual opposition of CONTACT ZONE vs. BORDER AREA in English and German languages highlighting problems related to their definition in history, linguistics, communication studies, education, etc. The author discusses a series of issues concerning the typology of contact zones in sciences and humanities, offers definitions of the concepts
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Middle Bronze Age Long Distance Exchange through Europe and Beyond: Beads of Egyptian and Mesopotamian Glass Reaching Denmark in the 14th Century BC Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Flemming Kaul
The introduction of the folding stool and the single-edged razor into Southern Scandinavia, as well as the testimony of chariot use during the Nordic Bronze Age Period II (1500-1300 BC), give evidence of the transfer of ideas from the Mediterranean to the North. Recent analyses of the chemical composition of blue glass beads from well-dated Danish Bronze Age burials have revealed evidence for the opening
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New Cultural Elements of European Origin in the Dark Ages of Attica Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Dmitri Panchenko
The transformation of burial customs in Protogeometric Athens is to be related to the ancient tradition concerning the coming of the Ionians. The newcomers constituted a new elite in Athens and introduced several new institutions. Burial customs of the newcomers, as well as the types of their swords and their political and military institutions point to their European, especially Scandinavian, affiliation
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Osteobiographies at the Edge of Empire: ‘Roman’ Provincials in Scythia Minor and Their ‘Barbarian’ Neighbors across the Danubian Frontier Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Cristina I. Tica
The aim of this research is to employ osteobiography as a means of learning about individuals in the past. Osteobiography entails a life-history approach in the analysis of skeletal human remains. Two groups that have been characterized in the literature as ‘Romans’ and ‘barbarians’ were analyzed by the author. The research questions used skeletal remains to address how the daily life of people under
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Parthian Imports in Asian Sarmatia (2nd-1st Centuries BC) Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Mikhail Treister
The paper dwells on the objects of Parthian origin (silver-gilt phalerae and gold- and silverware, glazed pottery) dated to the 2nd-early 1st centuries BC and found in the nomadic burials of Asian Sarmatia. It is noteworthy that a considerable part of them originate from the later, 1st century AD burials. Also remarkable are signs of deliberate damage on phalerae and one of the silver bowls, which
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Prestige Goods from Élite Burials as Markers of Self-Identity and Networking of the Élites Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Valentina I. Mordvintseva
The author proposes an approach to determine self-identities, boundaries, internal political organization and foreign relations of ancient societies using materials of burials of élites in the lack of representative written sources.
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Sarmatians on the Borders of the Roman Empire: Steppe Traditions and Imported Cultural Phenomena Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Eszter Istvánovits, Valéria Kulcsár
The Jazygi, the westernmost tribe of the steppe Sarmatian coalition, migrated to the Great Hungarian Plain in the 1st century AD followed by several later waves. Their material culture changed in some generations, for they arrived into a completely new political and geographical environment and were separated from their steppe relatives. For several generations Hungarian scholarship has been dealing
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A Temple of “The Mistress of the Sea” That Was Far from the Shore (the Iseum in Beneventum) Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Olga V. Tomashevich
The paper discusses the region of Campania as a zone of contact between Rome and Egypt, especially with regard to the cult of Egyptian Isis. Her cult first penetrates into port cities: Puteoli, Pompeii and, possibly at an even earlier date, Cumae. Later Rome, as the capital of the empire, affected each and every thing, including the spread of Isidic cult. The focus of our attention is the Iseum in
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Through a Black Hole into Parallel Universes: Multiple Monocultures and Dual Contact Zones in the British Isles, 5th-8th Centuries AD Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Heinrich Härke
The Anglo-Saxon immigration of the 5th-6th centuries AD led to a dual contact situation in the British Isles: with the native inhabitants of the settlement areas in south-eastern England (internal contact zone), and with the Celtic polities outside the Anglo-Saxon areas (external contact zone). In the internal contact zone, social and ethnogenetic processes resulted in a complete acculturation of the
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Über den Hintergrund der Verbreitung des Kybele-Kultes im Westen der Mittelmeerwelt: Neuere Forschungen zum phrygisch-hellenistischen Pessinus Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Altay Coşkun
A broad literary tradition accounts for the transfer of Magna Mater (in the shape of a meteorite) from Pessinus to Rome in 205 BCE. The evidence includes many details regarding the mythical aetiology and institutional organization of the cult. However, our main source, Livy 29.10.4-29.11.8 & 29.14.5-14, is viewed with ever growing suspicion, partly due to contradictions with other witnesses, partly
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Inscribed Ceremonial Dagger from a Princely Sarmatian Burial near the Village of Kosika in the Lower Volga Region Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Alexey V. Belousov, Mikhail Treister
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
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Inscribed Spherical Agate Gemstone from the Anapa Region Revisited Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Eugenia N. Andreeva
The paper focuses on one very unusual magical object originating from the territory of the Bosporan kingdom: an agate stone amulet with a rather extensive inscription found in the vicinity of ancient Gorgippia. The author summarizes the history of scholarly discussion on the subject and analyses Chr. Faraone’s “magical handbook” hypothesis putting forward some arguments against it. The paper not only
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Lydian Sardis and Its Sphere of Influence in the Light of Laboratory Analysis Results Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Pierre Dupont, Vasilica Lungu
Alongside its programme of chemical analyses of Archaic East Greek pottery, the Lyon Laboratory for Archaeometry has also looked into the field of Anatolian wares, first of all through additional samples from Lydian Sardis and from Kelainai, as well as with a small collection from Daskyleion. The results obtained enriched our data bank of valuable references on these sites and led to useful comparisons