Folia archeologica 53.

István Vida: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Hungary, Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Vol. III. Moesia Inferior, Supplement 1, Nicopolis ad Istrum

90 L.T. YABLONSKY Fig. 4 ( .olden detail of a quiver, a weapon-belt buckle and a belt hook from grave 3, in situ 4. ábra. A goriithosz részlete a függesztőszíj csatjával és akasztóhorgával. 3. sír, in situ There were two massive bracelets on the wrist. Both of them were made of a golden cast wire. They were omega shaped, stylistically reminding the bracelets of the man. The ends of the bracelets were decorated with figurines of goats. Along the left shoulder and the left part of the pelvis, similarly to the male grave, there were golden sewn plates: eight large cast ones depicting tigers in profile (heads en face, slightly above the forelegs). Typologically the figures are absolutely similar to the ones decorating the male costume. Similarly, they were inlaid with enamel and granulation. Further 11 plates were made out of stamped golden foil, depicting tigers in profile. From the other side there were double loops for sewing on. Among the feet, there was a heap of different beads, a bronze duck shaped pendant and 12 cauldron shaped bronze bells. At the feet of the dead, there were four large beads in row (chalk and an eye bead) that probably decorated the common funerary veil of the couple. Burial 5 was situated under the central part of the mound. It was a large rectangular grave with a corridor shaped dromos leading to the south from the central part of the southern wall of the chamber. The chamber was covered with logs lying in a radial position in 7-10 layers. The exterior ends of the logs were covered with heaps of twigs. Both logs and twigs were found strongly burned. The lower layers of the mound above the logs were red from burning. The central part of the covering was destroyed twice - during the ancient and the modern robbing of the burial chamber - and did not survive. In the centre of the burial chamber a square shaped sacrificial surface was situated. It was covered with clay, symbolising a fire-place. Its surface was covered with one cm thick layer of ash. The walls of the fire-place were oriented strictly to the cardinal points.