Szőllősy Csilla - Pokrovenszki Krisztián (szerk.): Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis - Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. C. sorozat 45. (Székesfehérvár, 2017)
Tanulmányok/közlemények - Régészet - Novicsihin, Andreay - M. Lezásk Gabriella - Gáll Erwin: Tarsolylemeztöredék Andrejavszkaja scselből. Gontolatok a tarsolyok kelet-európai és Kárpát-medencei elterjedésével kapcsolatban
Novicsihin, Atidrey — M. Le^sák Gabriella — Gáli Erwin: Tarsolylemeztöredék Andrejevszkaja scselből... Andrey Novicsihin - Gabriella M. Lezsák - Erwin Gall Fragmentary Remains of a Sabretache Cover Plate Found in Andrejevskaya Scel Thoughts on the Spread of Sabretaches in Eastern Europe and in the Carpathian Basin The subject of this article is the fragmentary silver cover plate of a sabretache (traditional flat leather bag of Hungarian horsemen, in Hungarian called ‘tarsoly’), which was deposited in the storage of the Gorgippia Archaeological Museum (Krasnodar Krai, Russia) in 2015, together with several other finds. The finds, which had been discovered at a site named Andreevskaya Scel, located a few kilometres south-east of the town, at the north-western foothills of the Caucasus, were turned in to the museum by a local resident. At this site, archaeologists of the Anapa Museum had earlier localised and partially excavated a cemetery complex related to the nomadic empires, also called steppe empires, of the 9-12th centuries AD. Among the artefacts deposited in the storage in 2015, there were other finds related to ancient Hungarians before the conquest of the Carpathian Basin (e.g. gilded silver disk-shaped hair plait ornament decorated with palmette motifs, gilded bronze belt ornaments etc.). In 2016, these finds were documented at the Anapa Museum by the Hungarian research team visiting the area with the objective to study the 9-10th century artefacts exhibited in museums situated at the northern foothills of the Caucasus, collect artefacts related to ancient Hungarians before the conquest of the Carpathian Basin, and build contacts with local archaeologists. As a first step of publishing the finds, in addition to the description and analysis of this unique fragmentary silver sabretache cover plate, members of the research team conduct a more detailed study of the spread of sabretaches in Eastern Europe and in the Carpathian Basin. As the solutions and decoration techniques used resemble those of ornamented sabretaches, many questions may arise regarding the sabretache cover plate discovered in Andreevskaya Scel. However, the fact that this was the first time that a sabretache cover plate was unearthed at the northern foothills of the Caucasus, even if it is fragmentary because of the research context, repeatedly draws our attention to this area. The Caucasus and its foothills used to be the scene of cultural and economic relations between the nomadic populations of the steppe and of the mountains, presenting a favourable opportunity for the eventual creation of significant power/political configurations. 81
