Istvánovits Eszter: International Connections... (Jósa András Múzeum Kiadványai 47. Aszód-Nyíregyháza, 2001)

Halina Dobrzanska: Contacts between Sarmatians and the Przeworsk Culture community

member of a local community, the woman may have come from a culturally different territory. It is with her burial that the golden necklace of a Hellenistic type (an item unknown in the Central European part of Barbaricum) should be linked, as well as a relatively homogeneous assemblage of wheel-made vessels, reflecting mostly Hellenistic traditions and also some Roman patterns (DOBRZANSKA-WIELOWIEJSKI 1997, 89 footnote 48, 93 footnote 79). Contacts between the Przeworsk Culture community and Sarmatians might have occurred in peaceful times as well as in times of military conflict. In order to explain that phenomenon, given the lack of existing literary records, we must consider ways to identify the finds linked with Sarmatians in the local cultural milieu, allowing for the nomadic character of their way of life. Our considerations might be greatly facilitated by the latest results of archaeological research on the traces of the invasions of nomadic Tatars that occurred in Central Europe in the 13

th c, which showed that the very small number of finds (49 finds on 12 sites) does not reflect in the slightest the scale of Tatar aggression as recorded in the historical sources (SWIÇTOSLAWSKI 1997, 112 ff). As regards artefacts indicating the possibility of Sarmatian invasions into the present Polish territories (as in the case of Tatar invasions), we should find arrowheads or parts of horse-harness in the settlements. Nevertheless, when the above-mentioned Fig3 Sandomierz-Krakówka, Swiçtokrzyskie Voivodship. 1: silver plate, 2-8: arrowheads