Pages: 101-121 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp223101121
The article discusses prescription additives and traces of impurities in the alloy of an assemblage of horse harness and chariot equipment of the Cimmerian period from a barrow near the village of L’govskoe in the North-East Crimea. X-ray fluorescence analysis and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry were applied in the study. It was determined that certain alloys were used for casting objects of different functional purposes. So, all cheekpieces were cast from tin-lead bronze without arsenic, and gnawed cheekpieces — on the contrary, from arsenic or tin-arsenic bronze. Arrows in most cases are cast from Cu-Sn-Pb-As-Sb multicomponent alloy. In terms of types, the morphology of objects and metallurgical groups of alloys used, the Cimmerian assemblage fully fits into the general picture presented by researchers for the North Caucasus, the Dnieper, and the lower Don region.
Keywords: Cimmerian complex assemblage, horse harness, chariot equipment, alloy composition, prescription additives and trace impurities, XRF analysis, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Information about authors:
Irina Rukavishnikova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-2034-8659
Denis Beylin (Simferopol, Crimea). Institute of Archaeology of Crimea of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 2, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-5701-9402
Tatiana Smekalova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 2, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea; National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”. Academician Kurchatov Sq., 1, Moscow, 123182, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-5378-5372
Anna Antipenko (Simferopol, Crimea). V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 2, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-8699-3132
Lev Leonov (Simferopol, Crimea). V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 2, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-1740-5173
Ekaterina Vashchenkova (Moscow, Russian Federation). National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”. Academician Kurchatov Sq., 1, Moscow, 123182, Russian Federation; National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” – IREA. Bogorodskii Val St., 3, Moscow, 107076, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-9921-4142
Rasim Saifutyarov (Moscow, Russian Federation). National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” – IREA. Bogorodskii Val St., 3, Moscow, 107076, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-5185-8838
Ekaterina Yatsishina (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate in Philosophy. National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”. Academician Kurchatov Sq., 1, Moscow, 123182, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-7652-7253