Folia archeologica 53.
István Vida: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Hungary, Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Vol. III. Moesia Inferior, Supplement 1, Nicopolis ad Istrum
88 L.T. YABLONSKY The dead was laid onto a grass mattrass that covered the whole surface of the burial chamber. Burial 3 was situated next to burial 2, north of the latter. The skeleton of a young warrior man was cleaned at the bottom of a deep grave-pit with „shoulders". the pit was covered with logs. He was laid stretched on his back, oriented to the soutli with his head. Under tbe wall of the burial chamber, to the right of the skeleton, two metal details of a spear were found in situ: a massive iron spearhead typologically close to the one described above, and a silver cast spike in the shape of a pipe with a spheric knob and an iron pommel. Judging from their position, the complete length of the spear was 3.2 m. The neck of the dead was decorated with an open torques with ends bending on each other, made out of a golden cast wire. The endings were decorated witb spatial figurines of a lying feline predatory animals, probably, lions (Fig. 5.). Across the hips an iron akinakes sword was placed with its handle towards the right hand. At the left hip there was a golden detail of the quiver - a massive umbo typologically analogous to the one described above, and a mounting for the crossing of the shield belts: a plate with two iron loops from the backside (Fig. 4.). The surface of the mounting was covered with golden foil decorated with a stamped multifigural composition made in the animal style (Fig. 6.1). A belt hook was found by the left hip bone, lower the neck of the femur. It was made of cast silver and depicted a composition including of an eared griffin and a panther (Fig. 6.2.). The details of the animal and of the mythical bird were covered by deep can ing filled with golden foil. At the left hip an iron war-axe was also found. Above the point of the sword there was a quiver full of arrows, the heads of which were preserved (more than 60 pieces). Some of the arrowheads had tamga like signs on them. Between the skeleton and the spearhead, a wooden cup was placed. Remains of wood and a golden rim-mounting were preserved (Fig. 6.3. ). The mounting can be described as an open-work plate with an engraved depiction in animal style. On the bottom of the burial chamber, remains of a grass mattrass were preserved. Burial 4 was situated in the western part of the barrow and could be recorded in the lower part of the mound, above the level of the buried soil. 4Tie grave-pit had a wide rectangular shape and was 4 m deep from the original surface. The long axis of the grave was oriented parallel with the edge of the mound in the given sector. Along the long sides of the grave-pit „shoulders" could be traced, on which logs of the covering were lying across the pit. Imprints of the logs could be observed on the surface of the „shoulders". On the surface of the eastern „shoulder", a massive iron spearhead was found, typologically analogous to the ones from burials 2 and 3 described above. On the bottom of the burial chamber two skeletons were cleaned: a synchronous double burial. Both of the dead were lying stretched, on their backs, with their head oriented to the south. The eastern skeleton belonged to a young man. He was facing the head of a young girl. At the head there were an iron akinakes-sword and above it, a silver vessel. Its handle was hollow, with a wing shaped spout. The handle was decorated with a relief figure of a bearded bull (Fig. 7.). The other handle had been already lost at the moment of the burial and the place of its attaching to the body of the vessel was thoroughly soldered and polished. This vessel has a rather close analogy from the Duvanli collection (Bulgaria). There the vessel is dated to the 5 1' 1 century B.C. 5 5 FILOV 1934.
