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WORLDS. CULTURES. CHRONOLOGY  

A. Naso (Rome, Italy)The Orientalizing Culture in Etruria17R. Dan (Rome, Italy)Between Urmia Lake and the Caspian Sea: the Eastern Expansion of Urartu33R. La Farina (Palermo, Italy)Late Arin-berd (Armenia). Old Discoveries and New Chronologies45V. A. Novozhenov (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)Wheeled Transport and Eurasian Communications of the Early Nomads57V. Filipović (Belgrade, Serbia)Scythian Influences in the Central Balkan Region in the Early Iron Age89

ARCHAEOLOGY OF REPRESENTATIONS  

L. T. Yablonsky (Moscow, Russian Federation)Animal Style of the Early Nomads of the Aral Region in the Context of Their Historical Development101E. V. Perevodchikova (Moscow, Russian Federation), A. D. Tairov (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation)The Early Saka Art in the Southern Urals and its Eastern Parallels121A. Hellmuth Kramberger (Ljubljana, Slovenia)About the Dating and Distribution of Golden Robe-Appliques in the Early Scythian Period (8th—7th centuries BC)143O. V. Lifantii (Kiev, Ukraine)Ornithomorphic Images on the Applicative Gold Decorations of Scythian Clothing167S. V. Makhortykh (Kiev, Ukraine), R. Rolle (Hamburg, Germany)Images of Detached Animal Paw and Human Hand in the Art of Steppe and Forest-Steppe Scythia183

“EPISTULAE EX PONTO”  

A. Yu. Alekseev (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Silver Kylixes from Scythian Barrows Solokha and Babý207V. A. Papanova (Berdyansk, Ukraine), S. N. Lyashko (Kiev, Ukraine)Olbian Chora’s Suburban Homesteads of the 5th—4th Centuries BC223H. V. Vertiienko (Kiev, Ukraine)Sarcophagus from Çan and its Visual Program251

RESEARCHES AND PUBLICATIONS  

V. B. Pankovskiy (Kiev, Ukraine)The Cheek Bits of Slobozia265F. M. Tóth (Budapest, Hungary)A Scythian Age Zoomorphic Roe Antler Cheekpiece from a Settlement in the Middle Tisza Region, Hungary297A. N. Podushkin (Shymkent, Kazakhstan)Egyptian Faience in the Burials of the Kylyshzhar and Kultobe Cemeteries in Southern Kazakhstan307S. B. Burkov (Vladikavkaz, Russian Federation)The Amulets and the Talismans Made of So Called “Egyptian Faience” from the Territory of Dagestan321

DISCUSSIONS  

V. I. Kac (Saratov, Russian Federation)Not Every Amphora with Englyphic Stamps Belongs to Heraclea Pontica Free!337

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION  

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