On the rare collection of the School Museum
In the summer of 1993, Nikolai Arinkin, a 5th grade pupil of the Moruk secondary school, found a spear in the Lippe area on the territory of the Moruk nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky District and handed it over to the Biology teacher M.S. Ermolaeva to be conveyed to N.M. Ermolaev, the then-director...
| Published in: | Siberian Research |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English Russian |
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Сибирские исследования
2021
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.33384/26587270.2021.05.01.13e https://doaj.org/article/4ea308843b5d4f6db3a7fdc2622bb0ce |
| Summary: | In the summer of 1993, Nikolai Arinkin, a 5th grade pupil of the Moruk secondary school, found a spear in the Lippe area on the territory of the Moruk nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky District and handed it over to the Biology teacher M.S. Ermolaeva to be conveyed to N.M. Ermolaev, the then-director of the school museum. The artifact is kept at the school museum under inv. No. 10. The spearhead is 20 cm long, the socket is 13 cm, its diameter is 3.5 cm. The spear has a double-edged blade in the shape of a leaf. The well-defined midrib merges into a conical socket with a reinforced wider edge. On one side, a crack can be noted almost the entire length of the socket. Where the socket merges into the tip, there are three thickenings ornamented with oblique shading on both sides. The nubs on both sides are decorated with two parallel notches. The thickening of the socket edge is divided by a line and decorated with oblique herringbone hatching. There is one lateral pin hole in the socket |
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