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It is the first publication of the find of a bronze battle hammer from the collection of the I. A. Goncharov Museum of Local Lore of the Ulyanovsk Region. The battle hammer was found in 2016 in a batch of sand and gravel mixture delivered to an enterprise in Ulyanovsk from a cis-Kama field. The hammer has a sculpted head with stylized figurines of predatory animals, and a relief of a lying predator on the socket of the hammer. As the authors found out, zoomorphic images on sockets and heads of battle hammers attributed to the Ananyino cultural-historical area are not typical. By composition and iconography of images, this type of hammer can be classified as Scythian-Siberian animal style and linked to the Asian part of the area. The battle hammer is dated by the authors within the second quarter of the 7th — early 6th centuries BC, or narrowed down within the second half — last quarter of the 7th century BC.

Keywords: Lower Kama region, Early Iron Age, Ananyino cultural and historical area, battle hammer, Scythian-Siberian beast style

Information about authors:

Andrei Chizhevsky (Kazan, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. A. Kh. Khalikov Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. Butlerov St., 30, Kazan, 420012, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Marat Gismatulin (Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation). Ulyanovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore named after I. A. Goncharov. Novy Venets Bd., 3/4, Ulyanovsk, 432017, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Rezida Khramchenkova (Kazan, Russian Federation). Candidate of Physics and Mathematics. A. Kh. Khalikov Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. Butlerov St., 30, Kazan, 420012, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]