Pages: 193-208 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp245193208
The article studies the composition of the alloy and the technology of making silver jewelry found in children’s burials from Babchik Vostochny — a 14th century slab burial ground in the Crimean Azov region. Silver spherical ornamented buttons in the studied necropolis and in all other sites with similar accessories were found in children’s burials. Surely, they were not just fashionable at the time but belonged specifically to children’s and adolescent costumes. Widespread in Crimea in the 14th century, richly decorated spherical buttons, made using similar technology, but extremely varied in decoration, indicate the existence, probably, of specialized workshops in the Bosporus (in Korchev). A curious symbiosis is the presence in one burial of signs of Christian piety (a pendant in the form of a cross, crosses carved into the headboards of graves) and coins with the Muslim symbol of faith.
Keywords: Crimean Azov region, Babchik Vostochny, medieval necropolis, spherical buttons, X-ray fluorescence analysis
Information about authors:
Aleksandr Maslennikov (Moscow, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dm. Ulianova St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-8292-1572
Tatiana Smekalova (Simferopol, Crimea). Doctor of Historical Sciences. V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 4, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-5378-5372
Anna Antipenko (Simferopol, Crimea). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of Crimea of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 2, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-8699-3132
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
Andrey Gavriliuk (Simferopol, Crimea). V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 4, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-9723-576X
Aleksey Devaev (Simferopol, Crimea). V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 4, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-1014-6882