MAIASP. 2025. No. 19 V.S. Sinika (Moscow, Russia),М.V. Ivashchenko (Magnitogorsk, Russia), S.N. Razumov (Tiraspol, Moldova), N.P. Telnov (Tiraspol, Moldova), D.F. Patkevich (Tiraspol, Moldova) SCYTHIAN Barrows OF THE 3RD — 2ND CENTURIES BCE NEAR ByCHOK VILLAGE ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE LOWER DNIESTER The article publishes and analyzes for the first time the materials obtained during the research of Scythian barrows 7 and 8 near the Bychok village on the left bank of the Lower Dniester. Both mounds were surrounded by ring ditches. The ditch with 13 breaks was recorded in the mound Bychok 7. It surrounded the memorial site or limited the space for a symbolic burial on the ancient horizon. The ring ditch of the mound Bychok 8 was arranged around the main and only grave made in a T-shaped catacomb. Both mounds were built in the 3rd — 2nd centuries BCE. Four amphora stamps from mound 7 allow us to narrow its date to the last decade of the 3rd century BCE. Both mounds are part of a Scythian cemetery of the 3rd — 2nd centuries BCE on the left bank of the Lower Dniester. The site was discovered and first studied in the late 19th century. It included at least three more Scythian barrows with the main graves in T-shaped catacombs; their topographic position is currently undetermined. It is quite possible that the latter were located in the immediate vicinity of the published barrows, since excavations of the 1898—1900 were recorded in them and in the nearby mounds. It is noteworthy that both mounds of the 3rd — 2nd centuries BCE (Bychok 7 and 8) were erected in the immediate vicinity of the Scythian barrow of the second quarter of the 4th century BCE Bychok 6. Such a situation is documented for the first time on the left bank of the Lower Dniester. The totality of data obtained during the study of the barrows Bychok 7 and 8 is an important element reflecting the Scythian presence in the North-West Black Sea region in the 3rd — 2nd centuries BCE. Key words: Left bank on the Lower Dniester Region, Scythians, the 3rd — 2nd centuries BCE, barrows, ditches, catacobs, amphorae stamps. |