Pages: 143-151 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/SL22143151

In the Maeotian burial ground on the northern bank of the Krasnodar storage reservoir (right bank of the Kuban River), a burial was excavated containing three pairs of iron bits with cheek-pieces. Two pairs of cheek-pieces are of the “eye-glass”-shaped type. Cheek-pieces of a similar design, both iron and bronze, were quite often used by the Sarmatians of the Northern Black Sea region, the Volga region and the Don region, but they were not widespread among the Maeotians of the Kuban region. The closest analogies come from the Sarmatian burials of the 1^st — early 2^nd century AD. The dating of the Maeotian burial is limited to the second half of the 1^st — the beginning of the 2^nd century AD.

Keywords: Kuban region, Maeotians, Sarmatians, burial ground, “eye-glass”-shaped cheek-pieces, chronology

Information about authors:

Natalia Limberis (Krasnodar, Russian Federation). Kuban State University. Stavropolskaya St., 149, Krasnodar, 350040, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0395-315X
Ivan Marchenko (Krasnodar, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Kuban State University. Stavropolskaya St., 149, Krasnodar, 350040, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-7319-5214