Folia archeologica 53.
István Vida: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Hungary, Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Vol. III. Moesia Inferior, Supplement 1, Nicopolis ad Istrum
EXCAVATIONS OF A „ROYAL" BARROW-GRAVE IN THE SOUTHERN UR.\I. H7 Fig. 2. Ground plan of Filippovka-1 cemetery. 2. ábra. A filippovkai első temető alaprajza Burial 2 belonged to a warrior considered to be old in his age (50-55). He was buried in a deep (around 4 m), almost rectangular pit. There were „shoulders" dug into the long sides of the pit in order to lay the diagonal logs of the cover. The corpse was lied on the back, stretched, directed to the south with head. In the south-eastern corner of the grave an iron scale armour was found, and in the south-western corner a massive iron spearhead was sticked vertically into the lloor of the burial chamber (its wooden shaft was not preserved). On the breast of the dead there was a torques with bent ends, made out of a cast golden wire. The ends of the torques were decorated with spatial figurines of feline predatory animals, probably lions, depicted lying in full length (Fig. 3). Across the hips, an iron akinakes was placed with its hilt at the right hand. The sword has a golden, butterfly shaped cross-piece decorated with an engraved animal style composition including several figures. The probably wooden scabbard was decorated with a golden foil stripe and inlaid with golden palmetto shaped spirals. The sword knot was decorated with a polygonal crystal bead. The point of the sword was situated above a heap of bronze arrowheads (more than 200 pieces of different types). There were tamga like signs of different types on some of the arrowheads. Around the left elbow a cup-shaped, cone like, massive golden object was found with a hole in its bottom. Somewhat upper there was a massive golden cast buckle in the form of a lying tiger. The buckle had two slits situated perpendicular to each other. It served as a mounting for the crossing of the suspension belts. The cone shaped object was the umbo for the quiver. Of the quiver itself woven twigs remained with traces of leather on its surface. Depictions of such umbos are well known from Scythian sculptures of the 5th_4th cen t B.C. 4 4 OLKIIOVSKIJ, EVDOLIMOV 1994, 73.
