UNIQUE FINDS OF THE EPOCH OF EARLY IRON FROM TATARSTAN

• Main Author: Руденко, К.А.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Altai State University 2019
• Subjects: archaeology; Scythians; Scythian sword; akinakes; Ananino culture; Tatarstan; Caucasus; a sword; ritual; Ural Mountains; Volga; the early Iron Age; археология; скифы; скифский меч; акинак; ананьинская культура; Татарстан; Кавказ; меч; ритуал; Урал; Волга; ранний железный век; ural mountains
• Online Access: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/%2811%29.-08; https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2015)1(11).-08

In the article the unique finds of an epoch of the early Iron Age are considered. It is the bronze vesselmade on the Caucasus at the end of VIII – the beginning of VII century B.C. At this time it was deliveredto Middle Volga region. It is a unique find of the whole bronze vessel of an epoch of the early Iron Age interritory of Tatarstan. The small bronze figurine was made in the Caucasus. It represents a standing personin a high hairdress. It is dated by IV century BC – II century AD. It was found in Biljarsk which is located inAlekseevsky area of Tatarstan. It was stored by the Kazan collector A.F. Lihachev. Now the artefact is in theNational museum of the Tatarstan republic. A unique find is the iron Scythian sword (akinakes) second halfVII century BC, found out in a city of Chistopol in Tatarstan. It has been bent during some ritual. It is themost northern find of swords «tip Kelermes» in the Eastern Europe. The set from 16 bronze decorated platesof the trapezoid, rectangular and square form which have been found out on IV Murzihinsky burial groundof an epoch of the early Iron Age is interesting as well. They were connected with each other by thin leatherthongs. Plates were put in a small hole, near to ancient burial places. These plates are dated by VII centuryBC. They were possibly made in the Сaucasus. В статье рассматриваются уникальные находки эпохи раннего железного века. Это бронзовый сосуд, изготовленный на Кавказе в конце vIII - начале vII в. В то время он и попал на Среднюю Волгу. Это единственная находка целого бронзового сосуда эпохи раннего железного века на территории Татарстана. На Кавказе была изготовлена небольшая бронзовая статуэтка. Датируется она IV в. до н.э. - II в. н.э. и изображает стоящего человека в высоком головном уборе. Ее нашли в Биляр-ске, расположенном в Алексеевском районе Татарстана, и хранилась она у казанского коллекционера А.Ф. Лихачева. Сейчас артефакт находится в Национальном музее Республики Татарстан. Уникальной находкой является железный скифский меч (акинак) 2-й ...