Pages: 25-48 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2142548

In 2017, a ritual deposit was found accidentally near Malynivka village in Petrovo district of Kirovohrad region. It belongs to the category of sites known in the literature as “odd” assemblages (M. B. Shchukin), the votive or ritual “hoards”. The find consists of Roman provincial bronze vessels (Bargfeld type situla and Aylesford type pan), silver and lead bridle roundels, five pairs of iron bits and cheek-pieces, five frontlets with a hook, and ten iron socketed arrowheads. Parallels to these items are dated to the 2nd—1st centuries BC. The Aylesford pan, which was first found in the North Pontic region, specifies the date of the assemblages to the first half of the 1st century BC. The topography of the parallels makes it possible to associate this find with the Northwestern Caucasus or Kuban region and determine its cultural affiliation as Sarmatian. The date and cultural attribution of the assemblage does not exclude the connection of this and similar “odd” assemblages (Marievka, Bădragii Noi, Vesela Dolyna, Hordashivka, etc.) with the raids of the Sarmatians and Maeotians from Kuban region.

Keywords: Northern Pontic region, early Sarmatians, ritual deposit, “odd” assemblages, barrow, situla, Aylesford type, bridle, bits, cheek-pieces

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Aleksandr Symonenko (Kiev, Ukraine). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Heroiv Stalingradu Ave., 12, Kiev, 04210, Ukraine
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