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Phanagoria is the “capital of the Asian Bosporus”, one of the largest ancient cities on the territory of the Russian Federation. Archaeological investigations on this ancient center began with the excavation of one of the mounds of Phanagorian necropolis in 1798, under G. van der Weide’s leadership. In this barrow, a big tomb was discovered, containing several blacklacquered vessels and a gold bracelet. This is the only gold find known to modern researchers, which was discovered during the excavations at the end of the 18th century on the territory of Phanagoria. The bracelet was sent to the Hermitage in early nineteenth century, however, due to a mistake in documentation made in 1937, it has been referred to as ‘stray find’ so far, and, therefore, has been outlooked by the modern Bosporan researchers. During the recovery into circumstances of its discovery and typological and chronological features of the bracelet allowed to conclude that the gold bracelet belonged to a secondary inhumation of the Great Migrations, made either in a crypt of the Hellenistic period, or in the mound.

Keywords: Phanagoria, history of archaeological studies, excavations, Huns, gold bracelet

Information about authors:

Irina Tunkina (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Saint Petersburg Branch of Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Universitetskaya Emb., 1, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
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Evgenia Zastrozhnova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Saint Petersburg Branch of Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Universitetskaya Emb., 1, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
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Oleg Sharov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
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