Pages: 349-354 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp234349354 

Fibulae are one of the brightest chronological indicators that constantly attract the attention of researchers. However, unlike burial complexes, finds of intact items in settlements are quite rare. In all recent years of research in the Bosporan city of Tyritake, the author has identified only two intact fibulae. These are: a two-pieces arched bronze fibula and a two-plate silver fibula. Both of them belong to the circle of East German artifacts and correspond to the period D1-D2 of the “barbarian” chronology. It is difficult to say if the fibulae found in Tyritake should be considered as a certain ethnic marker, indicating the presence of individual representatives of the East German tribes among the inhabitants of this provincial Bosporan city in the 4th — first half of the 5th centuries, or it was just a tribute to the “fashionable” trends in the Bosporus. However, in any case, the unearthed fibulae reflect the ethno-political trends common to the entire Bosporan Kingdom.

Keywords: Bosporan Kingdom, city of Tyritake, fibula, chronological indicator, Goths

Information about author:

Victor Zin’ko (Simferopol, Crimea). Doctor of Historical Sciences. V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 4, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-6208-7293