Istvánovits Eszter (szerk.): A nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum Évkönyve 55. (Nyíregyháza, 2013)
A 2010. október 11-14. között Nyíregyházán és Szatmárnémetiben megtartott Vándorló és letelepült barbárok a kárpáti régióban és a szomszédos területeken (I-V. század) Új leletek, új értelmezések című nemzetközi régészeti konferencia anyagai - Boris Raev: Meót plasztikus művészet - nomád hatás vagy megrendelés?
Burial of a Sarmatian horseman in the cemetery of a Maeotian hillfort Natalja Jurjevna Limberis - Ivan Ivanovich Marchenko In 2005 in the cemetery of the Starokorsunskaja Hillfort belonging to the Maeotian culture of the Kuban region, a rich grave of a horseman was investigated. The dead (Fig. 1) was placed into a narrow, elongated pit with rounded corners, oriented WSW-ENE. The pit was 2.97 m long and 1.05 m wide (in the middle part), the depth reached 0.30 m from the ancient surface. The remains were situated on the bottom of the pit on a level of loose humus mixed with clay. The skeleton of a 30-35 years old man1 lay extended on the back with the head towards WSW. The patches of black organic dust similar to rind in structure have been traced on the right of the skeleton. Along the right side of the dead there was an iron sword with a bronze guard (1). Between the sword and the right forearm there was a curved iron knife (2). Close to it a piece of chalk (3) and a bronze ring with a clasp (4) were placed. Under the middle part of the sword’s blade there were iron bits with cheek-pieces (5). In the same place fragments of two iron knives were found (6). A bronze clip (7) and a fragment of a bronze belt clasp (8) lay between humerus and the sword blade. On the lower part of the right forearm there was a golden arm ring (9). The fragment of a bronze awl lay on the knife (10). In the filling above the right femur there was an iron dagger (11). Near the right hip a fragment of a blade belonging to a broad iron knife (12) was found. At the hand a bronze finger ring (13) and a fragment of an iron object (14) were unearthed. At the belly (under the sacrum) pieces of harness and belt were compactly placed (Fig. 2). There were iron bits with cheek-pieces and pendants (15), nine small gilded phalerae (16), two bronze rings with clasps (17, 18) and an iron buckle. Under the bits a bronze spoon-shaped strapend was unearthed (19). Between the phalerae and the bits there was a glass bead (20). Near the left, interior part of the pelvis an iron buckle (21) was found. Two big gilded phalerae (22, 23) lay on the left forearm. In the filling under the right femur a silver breast phalera (24) lay. By the lower end of the left tibia, on the right side, there was a bronze buckle (25). A pebble (26) was unearthed 10 cm to the right of the skull. At the feet two pairs of iron bits with wheel-shaped cheek-pieces (27,28) were placed. In the SW comer of the grave pit, 20 cm above the bottom a grey wheel-made bowl (29) with a gray wheel-made jug inside (30) were found. There was a piece of chalk in the jug. In the filling of the NW part of the pit three pairs of iron bits with cheek-pieces were uncovered: near the 1 Gender and age attribution was made by Dr. M.A. Balabanova (Volgograd State University). On the basis of craniometry data she also determined the Sarmatian racial origin of the buried. NyJAME l.V. 2013. 393—407. 393
