Open AccessДве находки архаических костяных накладок на ножны из Северного Причерноморья
Author(s) -
А. Бутягин,
Государственный Эрмитаж
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
arheologičeskie vesti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1817-6976
DOI - 10.31600/1817-6976-2020-29-60-68
Subject(s) - sword , barbarian , offensive , archaeology , ancient history , quarter (canadian coin) , excavation , black sea , period (music) , geography , history , art , geology , engineering , oceanography , operations research , mechanical engineering , aesthetics
The paper deals with the finds of bone plates for scabbard mouth found in 2015 in the North Black Sea Region. Two bone plates for the same scabbard were found in Myrmekion in a layer of the first quarter of the 5th century BC. An onlay from an excavation site at the Berezan Island is dated to the second half of the 6th century BC. The scabbards decorated with these plates were made for the sword of makhaira (kopis) type. These finds support the idea that the abundance of this type of swords in the North Black Sea Region had existed from the Archaic period. A finding of a sword of the Greek type in a layer of a site at the Bosporus proves that Greek colonists continued to use a Greek set of weapons which disproves an opinion about the widespread adoption of the barbarian offensive weapons set.