MAIASP. 2022. No. 14 Mikhail Treister ( SEMIKOLENNYY KURGAN NEAR THE COSSACK VILLAGE
TUL’SKAYA WITH THE FINDS OF GREEK BRONZE VESSELS OF THE 6th
— 5th CENTURIES BCE. TO THE QUESTION OF THE
ORIGIN OF THE “MAIKOP TREASURE” DOI: 10.53737/2713-2021.2022.13.17.002 Access this
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The article is devoted to the publication and new attribution of two
bronze vessels originating from the looter’s excavations in 1912 of the Semikolennyy (“Seven-knee”) burial mound on the Shakhan mountain in the area of the Cossack village Tul’skaya in Adygea,
confiscated from the inhabitants of the village and transferred to the Kuban
Military Museum, currently stored in the Krasnodar State Historical and
Archaeological Museum-Reserve named after E.D. Felitsyn.
Until now publishers have unanimously attributed the oinochoe to the Eggers 124 type and, correspondingly,
dated it to the 1st century CE. Without any doubt the vessel
belongs to the so-called Form 2 (variant B), according to the classification
of T. Weber, represented by finds mainly from the Peloponnese, Central Greece
and South Italy, dating back to the 5th century BCE. In the recent
decades five similar vessels were found in Macedonia, including: two — in the
Sindos necropolis in the burials of the last third
of the 6th and the turn of the 6th — 5th
centuries BCE, two —in the burials of the first and third quarters of the 5th
century BCE of the necropolis of Pydna. In the The second item was published as a “krater
stand” without comment in the text, but the very fact that it was included in
a book on Roman imports suggests that this item was attributed to the first
centuries CE. In fact, this is the stand of an exaleiptron
(ἐξάλειπτρον, exáleiptron), a rare-shaped vessel used to store oils and ointments. To date, 8
stands of exaleiptrons are known, including two
specimens from the princely burials of the Trebenishte
necropolis in the region of In connection with the published finds of great interest is the
so-called Maikop Treasure, which, as a result of
several sales, is currently divided among the museums of It is highly probable that the bronze vessels under discussion could
come from this complex, the gold items from which, for the most part, are now
in the museums in |
Key words: Greek bronze vessels of the
Late Archaic — Early Classical period, oinochoes,
stands of exaleiptrons, looter’s excavations of
1912, the “Maikop Treasure”, Trans-Kuban area,
Cossack village Tul’skaya, the Semikolenny
burial mound. |
Received
February 24, 2022 Accepted
for publication March 17, 2022 |
About the author: Treister Mikhail ( E-mail: mikhailtreister@yahoo.de
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