Regional Features of the Subjects and Everyday Life Attributes in the Monumental Funeral and Memorial Artifacts of Scythia Minor in the 1st — early 3rd cc. AD Cover Image

Региональные особенности сюжетов и бытовых реалий в монументальных поминально-погребальных памятниках Малой Скифии I—III вв. н.э.
Regional Features of the Subjects and Everyday Life Attributes in the Monumental Funeral and Memorial Artifacts of Scythia Minor in the 1st — early 3rd cc. AD

Author(s): Sergey A. Yatsenko
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Ancient World
Published by: Нижневартовский государственный университет
Keywords: funeral and memorial monuments; Scythia Minor; subjects; iconography; regional features; religion of Iranian-speaking peoples

Summary/Abstract: The series of depictions on the Funeral and Memorial monuments in three regions of Crimean Scythia Minor in the 1st — early 3rd cc. AD were examined, many new important local details were came to light. Their iconography and semantics may be explained on a religious pre-Islamic believes of Iranian and Indo-Iranian peoples, first of all — on Alanian-Ossetian traditions.