Going to pot: Bronze cauldrons on the western fringe of scythian culture
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TOPAL, Denis. Going to pot: Bronze cauldrons on the western fringe of scythian culture. In: Peuce, 2020, nr. 18, pp. 111-136. ISSN 0258-8102.
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Numărul 18 / 2020 / ISSN 0258-8102

Going to pot: Bronze cauldrons on the western fringe of scythian culture


Pag. 111-136

Topal Denis
 
National Museum of History of Moldova
 
Disponibil în IBN: 10 noiembrie 2020


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Bronze cauldrons of the Scythian time are a rather rare find in the Northern Black Sea region, especially on its western borders. Scythian bronze cauldrons in the west area are concentrated in three main regions: Bukovina and Podillya (Iacobeni, Avrămeni, Ivane-Puste, Shvaikivtsy), the Lower Dniester (Răscăieții Noi, Nikolskoe, Dubăsari, Cioburciu), and the Lower Danube (Ograda, Castelu, Scorțaru Vechi, Mresnota Mogyla, Ostrivne). Some Scythian cauldrons have no reliable archaeological context. Nevertheless, in combination with the same “stray” finds like the Scythian statues, the finds of Scythian cauldrons mark the Scythian presence, most likely, not earlier than the late 6th century or even the turn of the 6th-5th centuries BC. There is a significant chronological difference between the northern (forest-steppe, Bukovina-Podillya) group of cauldrons and the southern (steppe, Lower Danube-Lower Dniester). At the same time, a chronological priority is characteristic of the first, where the cauldrons are known since the middle of the 7th century BC. Bronze cauldrons (with their carriers) penetrate the steppe region 150-200 years later, as well as the “military” burials that appear in the western steppe regions no earlier than the middle of the 5th century BC. Most of the burials with cauldrons (and, apparently, the stray finds) are dated back to the second half of the 5th century BC. Then, at the early 4th century BC their quantity is reduced and after the first quarter of the 4th century BC, they will completely disappear from the cultural practice of the population of the steppes of the North-Western Black Sea region. 

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Bronze cauldrons, Classical Scythian culture, Lower Danube, Middle Scythian period, Northwest Black Sea region, Scythian culture