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Document Details : Title: Jewellery and Related Finds from a Rich 1st Century AD Sarmatian Burial from the Crimea Author(s): TREISTER, Mikhail Y. Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 1 Issue: 2 Date: 2002 Pages: 357-392 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.1.2.3291994 Abstract : In 1997 the author had the opportunity to get acquainted with some archaeological finds, kept in a private collection, which are said to have been found in 1996 in a burial in the shape of a big rectangular pit somewhere in the Central Crimea. It most probably represents part of the inventory from one of the burials in the Ust-Alma necropolis, robbed in 1996. The objects include: 1) a gold lamellar armlet with gem inlays, very similar to those from Olbia, now in Baltimore; 2) a pair of gold earrings with amphora-shaped pendants; 3) a necklace in the shape of a gold braided chain with oval inlays in gold box settings; 4) a silver-gilt round-bottomed vessel; 5) a bronze handle of an oinochoe, and 6) a pair of small round-bottomed alabaster toilet, or ritual, vessels with two and four zoomorphic handles. The inventory of this new rich Sarmatian burial raises the question of the interrelation of the Eastern Mediterranean, North Indian (Taxila) and North Pontic jewellery at the beginning of the Christian era. |
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